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The Impact of Demographics on Housing and Non-Housing Wealth in the United States

Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 1994

prices, and if they adjust their non-housing savings accordingly, then welfare losses in retirement could be mitigated. This … prices?; and (2) How are household savings decisions affected by capital gains in housing? We use metropolitan statistical … forecastability of housing prices. Further, we use data on five-year savings rates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and find no …

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Tax Aspects of Policy Towards Aging Populations : Canada and the United States

Auerbach, Alan J. - 1990

In comparing Canada with the U.S., we first simulate the U.S. demographic transition, treating the U.S. as a closed economy. The time path of interest rates obtained from the U.S. simulations are then used in the Canadian simulations. In the Canada simulations, Canada is assumed to be an open...

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The economic effects of aging in the United States and Japan

Hurd, Michael D. (ed.); Yashiro, Naohiro (contributor) - 1997

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U.S. Demographics and Saving : Predictions of Three Saving Models

Auerbach, Alan J. - 1990

This paper compares the predictions of three different saving models with respect to the impact of projected U.S. demographic change on future U.S. saving rates. The three models are the life cycle model, the infinite horizon altruism model, and a reduced form econometric model. The findings for...

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Themes in the economics of aging

Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2001

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Demographics, Fiscal Policy, and U.S. Saving in the 1980s and Beyond

Auerbach, Alan J. - 1989

This paper focuses on U.S. saving, demographics, and fiscal policy. We use data from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys of the 1980s to consider the effect of demographic change on past and future U.S. saving rates. Our findings indicate that demographic change may significantly alter the U.S....

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Analyses in the economics of aging : [a National Bureau of Economic Research conference report]

Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2005

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The Effect of Demographic Factors on Age-Earnings Profiles

Freeman, Richard B. - 1979

The age-earnings profile of male workers is significantly influenced by the age composition of the workforce. When the number of young workers increased sharply in the 1970s, the profile "twisted" against them, apparently because younger and older male workers are imperfect substitutes in...

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Population Aging

Weil, David N. - 2006

Population aging is primarily the result of past declines in fertility, which produced a decades long period in which the ratio of dependents to working age adults was reduced. Rising old-age dependency in many countries represents the inevitable passing of this "demographic dividend." Societies...

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Simulating the Dynamic Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Effects of the FairTax

Jokisch, Sabine - 2005

According to our simulation model, these policy changes would almost double the U.S. capital stock by the end of the century and raise long-run real wages by 19 percent compared to the base case alternative. They would also preclude a doubling of the highly regressive payroll tax. Indeed, the...

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