displacement effect of robots is occupation biased but age neutral, whereas the reinstatement effect is age biased and benefits …We analyse the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use in German … adapting to change. An event-study analysis of robot adoption confirms both predictions. We do not find adverse employment …

We analyze the effects of declining population growth on automation. A simple theoretical model of capital accumulation … predicts that countries with lower population growth introduce automation technologies earlier. We test the theoretical …, suggesting that a 1% increase in population growth is associated with an approximately 2% reduction in the growth rate of robot …