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By the middle of this century, Asia's elderly population is projected to reach 922.7 million, and its share of … population 17.5%, from just 4.1% in 1950. Within the next few decades, Asia is poised to become the oldest region in the world … requires a big head-start. This paper analyzes the impact that aging is having in Asia, examines the policy options for dealing …
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During recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the explanatory power of demographic variables in economic growth regressions. We estimate a new model of the effects of age structure change on economic growth. We use the new model and recent probabilistic demographic projections...
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This paper uses the Auerbach-Kotlikoff Dynamic Simulation Model to compare the projected demographic transitions in Canada and the United States. The simulation model determines the perfect foresight transition path of an economy in which individuals live to age 75. The model's preferences are...
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In the context of the rapidly advancing population ageing, the region of Latin America and the Caribbean is currently facing an unprecedented challenge of adapting to the transformed - yet, still evolving - age structure of the population. The paper provides a regional synthesis of the National...
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positive demographic shocks from emerging Asia. The overall impact of the rest of the world on Australian GDP is quantitatively …
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This is a dataset of vital statistics and cohort component population estimates at a spatially-disaggregated level for the island of Ireland for the period 1911-1920. The raw data were digitised by the authors using official UK government statistics. The population estimates were then derived by...
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Which groups in the general US public are more or less authoritarian? This paper reports the demographic correlates of the Brief Authoritarian Scale of Professors Schuman, Bobo, and Krysan. Analyzing data in the leading US academic survey of attitudes, the National Opinion Research Center's...
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