by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts surrounding the aging of populations across different countries at … might consider to mitigate the strain – and to harness the full potential – of aging populations worldwide …

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 could older adults extend their working lives if their health status … results imply that HCW is concentrated among more educated urban senior residents with access to the statutory pension system …

The population of developing Asia, in particular East Asia, is aging. Funding the needs of its growing population of … older adults is the biggest socioeconomic challenge that aging presents for the region. The central objective of our paper … rise substantially because of population aging between 2025 and 2065. We find that labor income will play a smaller role in …

fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility: one by …-age transfers. The effect of increases in government provided pensions on fertility in the Barro and Becker model is very small …, whereas the effect on fertility in the Boldrin and Jones model is sizeable and accounts for between 55 and 65% of the observed …

The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary … examines how the pension policy affects the endogenous fertility of a bargaining couple who have different lifespans. The … analysis finds out a new channel of pension policy on fertility decisions: an increase in pension size affects fertility not …

at different stages of this region wide trend. We document Asia's aging population, describe the region's old-age support … systems, and highlight the regional socioeconomic implications of the transition for those support systems. Aging populations …

In this paper we investigate the impact of a reduction in the pension replacement rate on the schooling choice and on … we first show how many progressive pension systems are ex ante regressive due to the difference in life expectancy across … skill groups and, second, we derive the level of progressivity that restores an equal treatment of the pension system across …