Population ageing has brought concerns about labour shortage and public finance sustainability. These concerns spread out from the assumption that an increased age-based dependency ratio is a synonym of shrinking working lifespan for financing extending lifecycle consumption. Such a conclusion...

Population ageing has brought about debates over potential labour shortages in many countries, particularly Canada. With women's participation stagnating and immigration raising heated debates, harnessing the labour supply from the underemployed could be an alternative for compensating for an...