focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have large pay …

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. This … 2020 and 2060, while Germany will experience a decline by 10.7 percent (4.4 million workers). In these baseline projections …

subsidies on retirement, savings and housing choices in the two countries. Germany faces a particularly pronounced aging process … percent at its peak in 2030. In this respect, changes that are occurring in Germany now may be regarded as indicative for … changes to come in the United States. Retirement, savings and housing behavior differ quite markedly between Germany and the …

The Japanese are becoming older. Americans are also becoming older. Demographic stress in Japan, measured by the … dependency ratio (DR), is currently about 0.64. In the immediate pre-WWII era it was even higher because Japan's total fertility … note I simulate the DR under various conditions and make comparisons with the US. Japan has experienced a large increase in …

impending demographic changes in Japan, the Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden and the United States. The simulation results …

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the …