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Population Ageing, Government Budgets, and Productivity Growth in Politico-Economic Equilibrium

Gonzales-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2007

productivity. To that purpose, we introduce politics in an OLG economy with endogenous growth due to human and physical capital … resources from education spending to retirement benefits and a slowdown of productivity growth. Calibrated to U.S. data, the … and the education share to fall. This effect depresses the annual productivity growth rate by 10 basis points. In spite of …

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Productivity Growth: The Role of Financial Development

Aghion, Philippe; Bacchetta, Philippe; Ranciere, Romain; … - 2006

-term rate of productivity growth, but the effect depends critically on a country's level of financial development. For countries …

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Output collapses and productivity destruction

Blyde, Juan S.; Daude, Christian; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - 2009

below trend - and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period …

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Where Should the Elderly Live and Who Should Pay for their Care? A Study in Demographics and Geographical Economics

Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2007

There is a rich literature analyzing the problems that will arise as the share of elderly and retired in the population increases in the near future. However, the locational decisions among the elderly as well as their implications in terms of taxes/transfers and of allocation of...

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The effect of changes in the replacement rate on partial retirement in Sweden

Glans, Erik - 2008

Knowledge about how elderly workers react to changes in pension benefits is important in guiding the design of social security systems. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining the effect of changed replacement rates on part-time retirement behaviour in Sweden. During the 1980s,...

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On Household Wealth Trends in Sweden over the 1990s

Klevmarken, N. Anders - 2003

Influenced by a major tax reform in the beginning of the 1990s and by the exceptional boom in the stock market at the end of this decade the level as well as the inequality of the wealth of Swedish households have increased. The large baby-boom cohorts of the 1940s have been successful in...

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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations

Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - 2007

For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...

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