In Deutschland ist ein Prozess in Gang gekommen, der zu einer Polarisierung der Bevölkerung führen wird. Vor allem Städte wachsen und die Bevölkerungszahl in ländliche Regionen - und dies ganz extrem in einigen Gebieten Ostdeutschlands - schrumpft. Im Grundgesetz wird die Gleichwertigkeit...

This paper addresses two issues. The first is whether demographic change was plausibly responsible for the run-up in stock prices over the last decade, and whether the attempt by the baby boom cohort to cash out of its investments in the period 2010-30 might lead to an “asset meltdown.” The...

The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...

Die steigende Zahl an Pflegebedürftigen und die Diskussion um fehlende Pflegekräfte verdeutlichen die Herausforderungen, vor denen der Pflegearbeitsmarkt aktuell steht. Der demografische Wandel beeinflusst im Bereich der Pflege sowohl den Bedarf als auch das Angebot an Pflegekräften. Welche...

Die Annahmen der Bevölkerungsvorausberechnungen des Statistischen Bundesamtes haben sich in den vergangenen 20 Jahren in mehrfacher Hinsicht verändert und bewirkten zuletzt einen weniger stark ansteigenden Altenquotienten. Bis etwa 2010 wurden für die Zukunft immer größere Steigerungen der...

Housing and health are critical issues for policymakers and the public. Secure and affordable housing, along with quick access to required health and social care, are considered essential services for the public and are key targets for planners. In Ireland, as in many countries, the need to...

This memo studies the impact of demographic shifts and income inequality on the evolution of savings rates in Denmark, and compares with evidence from the US. Income inequality has followed similar trends in Denmark as in the US, and savings rates vary in a similar way over the life cycle and...

This report provides estimates of structural (demographic) housing demand at a regional level. Any assessment of structural future housing demand relies on assumptions around (1) population growth, (2) headship rates (the typical household size) and (3) rates of obsolescence of the housing...

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

The paper develops an overlapping generations model with probabilistic aging of households. We define age as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential, health and tastes that are characteristic of a person's position in the life-cycle. In assuming a limited number of different...