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I present a theoretical model where the economy endogenously adopts the technological ideas of a slowly evolving technological frontier, and show that the presence of a "technological gap" between unadopted ideas and current productivity can lead to multiple equilibria and therefore the...
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Quebec, as most Western societies, is facing the ageing of its population, producing many economic, political and … needed to reach specific demographic targets, which are, in this study, to prevent total population decline, to prevent … working-age population decline and to prevent the percentage of those 65 years and over from exceeding 25% of the total …
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The Canadian population is aging as the children of the "baby boom" move into and through middle age and then on toward … the retirement years. The "baby bust" that followed the boom has slowed the rate of population growth and reduced sharply … taken on an important role in determining the rates of population and labour force growth. We explore these and related …
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This paper makes available a number of projections of the age-sex distribution of the Canadian population in the 45 …
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MEDS (Models of the Economic-Demographic System) software. MEDS-E is designed to make use of the all-Canada population and … made year-to-year, extend as far as 2041. The time paths of the economic projections are determined by the population and …
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longer-term responses of the Canadian population and economy to a wide range of factors on either the demographic side, such … quantitative measures of the likely demographic and economic consequences of population aging, and indicates the scope for …
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population, society, and economy. Drawing on a series of counterfactual projections, this paper considers what the year 2001 … assumptions. A major finding is that the boom had much less impact on the 2001 age structure of the population and labour force … than did the bust that followed. For the future, population aging, slower rates of growth, and increased dependency ratios …
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population, society, and economy. Drawing on a series of counterfactual projections, this paper considers what the year 2001 … assumptions. A major finding is that the boom had much less impact on the 2001 age structure of the population and labour force … than did the bust that followed. For the future, population aging, slower rates of growth, and increased dependency ratios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181107
the MEDS (Models of the Economic-Demographic System) software. MEDS-D is designed for projecting the population, labour …
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This report makes available a range of projections of the Canadian population and labour force based on information …", "higher population growth", and "lower population growth". The report provides an indication of the capabilities of the MEDS …
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