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Developments in the economics of aging

Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2009

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Themes in the economics of aging

Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2001

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Pensions and Contemporary Socioeconomic Change

Lindbeck, Assar - 2000

The paper discusses the consequences for the functioning of different pension systems of various types of socioeconomic changes, mainly demographic developments, variations in productivity growth and changes in real interest rates. Two of the pension systems have exogenous and four have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470980

Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run

Jones, Charles I. - 1999

This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...

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The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market

Shimer, Robert - 1999

This paper estimates the response of the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate to exogenous variation in the youth share of the working age population, using cross-state variation in lagged birth rates as an instrumental variable. A one percent increase in the youth share reduces...

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Social Security and Demographic Uncertainty : The Risk Sharing Properties of Alternative Policies

Bohn, Henning - 1999

As the U.S. population ages, the growing retiree-worker ratio increases the burden of public retirement systems. Is it efficient to maintain a defined benefit social security system? Should PAYGO benefits be reduced and private retirement savings be encouraged? The paper examines these questions...

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Demographic Change and Public Assistance Expenditures

Moffitt, Robert A. - 1999

Growth in overall real welfare expenditures per capita has been a noted trend in the last thirty years in the U.S. The influence of demographic forces in contributing to this growth is considered in this paper. It is found that the growth of female-headed families is the strongest and dominant...

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Population Growth and Firm Dynamics

Peters, Michael; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Population growth has declined markedly in almost all major economies since the 1970s. We argue this trend has important consequences for the process of firm dynamics and aggregate growth. We study a rich semi-endogenous growth model of firm dynamics, and show analytically that a decline in...

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Demographics, Wealth, and Global Imbalances in the Twenty-First Century

Auclert, Adrien; Malmberg, Hannes; Martenet, Frederic; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use a sufficient statistic approach to quantify the general equilibrium effects of population aging on wealth … countries, we measure the compositional effect of aging: how a changing age distribution affects wealth-to-GDP, holding the age … compositional effect is positive, large, and heterogeneous across countries, our model predicts that population aging will increase …

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Population, Productivity, and Sustainable Consumption

Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does the sustainable level of consumption depend on productivity growth and the size and growth rate of the population? What is the effect of uncertainty over these growth rates? I address these questions using a model in which productivity and population growth are stochastic, and social...

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