doi:10.1016/j.jeoa.2023.100476engAisa, RosaCabeza, JosefinaMartin, JorgeAutomation and aging: The impact on older workers in the workforceART-2023-136219Developed countries are seeing advances in automation and, at the same time, their populations are aging. In this paper we examine both phenomena using the delay in retirement age as a nexus. Although automation is freeing workers from repetitive, hard work, older workers feel threatened by new automation advances which generate skill mismatches. Two links are highlighted: First, since skill mismatches affect low-skilled older workers more than those who are highly skilled, the latter will remain active for a longer period of time while the former will be pushed to retire. Second, the highly skilled workers who decide to prolong their working lives are a valuable resource for further automation advances because this technology continues to need human-assisted solutions.Our analysis establishes an important role for adult training to fill the gap between initial education and the demands of a rapidly changing labor market in order to encourage individuals to postpone their retirement and,hence, to ensure the sustainability of the social insurance system.2023http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/12990910.1016/j.jeoa.2023.100476http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129909oai:zaguan.unizar.es:129909Journal of the Economics of Ageing 26 (2023), 100476 [12 pp.]byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess