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Baby Boom, Asset Market Meltdown and Liquidity Trap

Cai, Junning - EconWPA - 2004

A so-called “asset market meltdown hypothesis” predicts that baby boomers’ large savings will drive asset market booms that will eventually collapse because of the boomers’ large retirement dissavings. As good news to baby boomers, our analysis shows that this meltdown hypothesis is...

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Productivity Commission Submission to the Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

, including its inquiry into Nursing Home Subsidies and a major conference on Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia …; an analysis of the implications of ageing, trends in disability rates and other key influences on the future demand for …

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Private hospitals in Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

Amongst other things, this report: . provides a statistical overview of the structure of the industry and the activities of the 500 acute care, psychiatric and day hospitals that operate within it; . looks at some indicators of the industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of...

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Theoretical Aspects of Retirement Decisions

Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2002

Paper presents a survey of five different approaches to retirement decision analysis. Simple life cycle labour supply model leads to a classical optimization problem of choice between work and leisure, but it is highly limited in explaining retirement decision as a static approach. Comparative...

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Ageing, interest rates, and financial flows

Saarenheimo, Tuomas - EconWPA - 2005

. This study concentrates on the effects of ageing on the evolution of global interest rates and financial flows. The study …

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40 million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited

Corden, Max - EconWPA - 2004

If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline in the fertility rate or a very large increase in the rate of net migration. This lecture explores this interesting question.

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Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005

The commissioned study into the ageing of Australia’s population was released April 2005. The Commission found that one … government. Policy measures will be needed to reduce the fiscal pressure from ageing and/or to finance the fiscal gap. Reforms … would be needed in key human service areas, such as health and aged care, where the pressures of an ageing population will …

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Long-term aged care: expenditure trends and projections

Madge, Alan - EconWPA - 2001

Discusses the factors that influence long-term aged care demand and provides projections of future expenditure. Long-term aged care in this context comprises mainly residential care (nursing homes and hostels) and community care services for the infirm aged.

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