Digitalization is the buzzword under which profound changes of the labor market can be summarized. Next to automation …

ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation …

result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however … capture many factors besides automation, and cautions against using descriptive evidence to draw causal inferences. It also … employment in the 2000s, but finds little evidence of a causal link to automation. …

We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular … older to middle-aged workers — is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies across … development of automation technologies in countries undergoing greater demographic change. Our directed technological change model …

. Digitalisation and, especially, automation are challenges that must be faced if developing countries are to avoid premature de …