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Health and Work at Older Ages : Using Mortality to Assess the Capacity to Work Across Countries

Milligan, Kevin S. - 2013

Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of...

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Long-run homogeneity of labour demand, panel evidence from OECD countries

Hahn, Franz R. - In: Applied economics 36 (2004) 11, pp. 1199-1203

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Cheap Thrills : The Price of Leisure and the Global Decline in Work Hours

Kopytov, Alexandr; Roussanov, Nikolai L.; … - 2022

Recreation prices and hours worked have both fallen over the last century. We construct a macroeconomic model with general preferences that allows for trending recreation prices, wages, and work hours along a balanced-growth path. Estimating the model using aggregate data from OECD countries, we...

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Trade and technological explanations for changes in sectoral labour demand in OECD economies

Boyle, Gerard E.; MacCormack, Pauline - In: Applied economics 34 (2002) 5, pp. 617-635

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Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change : International Evidence

Berman, Eli; Bound, John; Machin, Stephen J. - 2021

Demand for less skilled workers decreased dramatically in the US and in other developed countries over the past two decades. We argue that pervasive skill-biased technological change rather than increased trade with the developing world is the principal culprit. The pervasiveness of this...

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A politico-economic model of aging, technology adoption and growth

Lancia, Francesco (contributor); … - 2007

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Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth

Bloom, David E. - 2011

The share of the population aged 60 and over is projected to increase in nearly every country in the world during 2005-2050. Population ageing will tend to lower both labor-force participation and savings rates, thereby raising concerns about a future slowing of economic growth. Our calculations...

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Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010

There is growing concern about a decline in the total fertility rate worldwide, but nowhere is the concern greater than in OECD countries, some of which already face the prospect of population decline as well. While the trend is largely the result of structural economic and social changes, our...

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On the Consequences of Demographic Change for Rates of Returns to Capital, and the Distribution of Wealth and Welfare

Krueger, Dirk - 2010

consumption, from higher wages associated with population aging. Older, asset-rich households tend to lose, because of the …

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Aging and the Growth of Long-Term Care

Lakdawalla, Darius N.; Philipson, Tomas - 2021

This paper analyzes how markets for old-age care respond to the aging of populations. We consider how the biological … demand for and supply of care. We argue that aging many times may lower the demand for market care by increasing the supply … of family-provided care, which substitutes for market care. By providing healthy spouses, aging may increase the supply …

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