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Population Aging and Economic Growth : From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015....
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Research findings in the economics of aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2010
Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor force participation, government policies, and GDP / John B. Shoven -- Comment / Erzo F. P. Luttmer -- Work disability: the effects of demography, health, and disability insurance /...
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The Impact of Health and Education on Labor Force Participation in Aging Societies – Projections for the United States and Germany from a Dynamic Microsimulation
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections …Both the US and Germany are expected to undergo demographic aging, but their demographic fundamentals differ starkly … 2020 and 2060, while Germany will experience a decline by 10.7 percent (4.4 million workers). In these baseline projections …
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Old Europe ages : Reforms and Reform Backlashes
Boersch-Supan, Axel H. - 2010
This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have …
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The evolution of retirement : an American economic history, 1880 - 1990
Costa, Dora L. - 1998
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How Are Employers Responding to an Aging Workforce?
Clark, Robert L. - 2020
The American population is aging and changes in the population's age structure are leading to an aging of the nation's workforce. In addition, changes to age specific participation rates are exacerbating the aging of the national labor force. An important challenge for firms and organizations is...
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Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Button, Patrick - 2019
This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a...
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Why Retirement, Social Security, and Age Discrimination Policies Need to Consider the Intersectional Experiences of Older Women
Burn, Ian - 2020
We provide an overview of research that indicates that older women face unique challenges and opportunities with respect to work, retirement, Social Security, and age discrimination law. We present estimates of poverty by age and sex, showing that poverty increases with age for women due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481645
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The Age Profile of Life-satisfaction After Age 65 in the U.S
Hudomiet, Péter - 2020
Although income and wealth are frequently used as indicators of well-being, they are increasingly augmented with subjective measures such as life satisfaction to capture broader dimensions of individuals' well-being. Based on data from large surveys of individuals, life satisfaction in...
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Why are Retirement Rates So High at Age 65?
Lumsdaine, Robin L. - 1995
In most data sets of labor force participation of the elderly, an empirical regularity that emerges is that retirement rates are particularly high at age 65. While there are numerous economic reasons why individuals may choose to retire at 65, empirical models that have attempted to explain the...
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