Unser Volkwird immer älter. Das stellt uns vor neueHerausforderungen, insbesondere dieWirtschaftmuss neue Lösungen entwickeln.Aufgrund des Geburtenrückgangs einerseits undalternder Belegschaften andererseitsmüssen sichUnternehmen auf einen zunehmenden Fachkräftemangeleinstellen. In der...

Der demographische Wandel stellt für die operativeLogistik eine große Herausforderung dar. Zu der im Alter sinkendenkörperlichen Belastbarkeit der Logistikmitarbeiter kommen in Zeitender Wertschöpfungsorientierung neue Anforderungen von Seiten derUnternehmen auf die Mitarbeiter zu....

A spatial econometrics cross-section analysis of the NUTS2 regions of the EU15 is carried out to examine whether the age structure of the regional population or di¤erences in the regional age pattern a¤ect growth of regional per capita income.

We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables with the example of age-specific mortality in the U.S., building on the Lee-Carter approach and extendingit in several dimensions. We incorporate covariates and model their dynamics jointly with the latent variables underlying...

Pay-as-you-go pension programs can help to share risk amongst generations.While a wage-indexed pension program is best suited to share labor income risk,I show that the combination of stochastic labor income and stochastic populationgrowth may reduce the possibilities for intergenerational risk...

Die Einführung eines jeden auf dem Umlageverfahren basierenden Systems verursacht– bei unterstellter Alterung der Bevölkerung – eine intergenerative Umverteilungzu Gunsten der ersten Generationen und zu Lasten üungerer und nachwachsenderGenerationen. Am Beispiel der Einf¨uhrung der...

Presuming an ageing population, every introduction of a pay-as-you-go schemecauses intergenerational redistribution in favor of the first generations and to theburden of young and future generations. Using the concept of internal rates ofreturn we want to examine the extent to which the first...

Eugenics has played an important role in the relations between social and biological scientists of population through time. Having served as a site for the sharing of data and methods between disciplines in the early twentieth century, scientists and historians have tended to view its legacy in...

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures ofincome risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk of demographic and labour market factors....

This paper provides a new theory of international capital ows. In a frameworkthat integrates factor-proportions-based trade and nancial capital ows, a novel forceemerges: capital tends to ow towards countries that become more specialized incapital-intensive industries. This `composition' eect...