Ana Lucia Abeliansky

Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of Göttingen

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Total Citations

113

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About

Ana Lucia Abeliansky is an economist whose research sits at the intersection of automation, demographic change, and worker well-being. Her work has made significant contributions to understanding how technological transformation — particularly industrial robotics — shapes both labor markets and human health outcomes. Her most-cited study, "Are They Coming for Us? Industrial Robots and the Mental Health of Workers," has garnered 55 citations and offers a rigorous empirical investigation into the psychological toll of automation on manufacturing employees, drawing on rich longitudinal data from the German Socioeconomic Panel. Beyond individual-level impacts, Abeliansky examines the macroeconomic drivers of automation adoption, notably exploring how demographic forces such as declining fertility and population ageing accelerate the embrace of robotic technologies. Her 2023 paper on automation and population growth, with 38 citations, demonstrates through cross-country panel evidence spanning 60 nations that shrinking labor forces push economies toward faster automation. Taken together, her body of work — spanning theory and empirics — provides crucial insight into one of the defining economic tensions of our era: how societies simultaneously navigate technological disruption and demographic decline, and what these twin forces mean for workers' livelihoods and mental health.