The Paris Agreement signals increased climate awareness and potential changes in the business environment as an economy decarbonizes. Ratification of the Paris Agreement could heighten climate-related transition risks, especially for companies in high-emitting industries. This research analyzes...

Asia is aging, although there is significant heterogeneity across subregions and economies. Population aging poses two strategic challenges for the region: sustaining economic growth and delivering old-age economic security. In this paper, we leverage the lifecycle perspective-that individuals'...

Developing Asia has grown faster than other parts of the world for decades. However, population aging is expected to pose significant headwinds to the region’s future economic growth. We update and enhance the analysis of Park and Shin (2012) to project the impact of population aging on...

Using the Milligan and Wise (2015) and Cutler, Meara, and Richards-Shubik (2013) methodologies, we examine (i) how much would people today with a given mortality rate or life expectancy work if they were to work as much as those with the same mortality rate worked in the past, and (ii) how much...

This paper uses two methodologies to explore the extent to which greater labor force participation among older Malaysians can expand Malaysia's labor supply. The Milligan-Wise method estimates the potential to increase the labor force participation rate of older Malaysians by estimating how much...

In this paper, we estimated the additional health capacities to work of older Vietnamese adults by applying the Milligan-Wise and Cutler-Meara- Richards-Shubik methods with various nationally representative datasets. In following these methods, we postulated that older adults' mortality rates,...