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We assess the long-run growth effects of rising longevity and increasing the retirement age when growth is driven by … the retirement age fosters economic growth. How economic growth changes in response to rising life expectancy depends on … the retirement response. Employing numerical analysis we find that the requirement for experiencing a growth stimulus from …
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We assess the long-run growth effects of rising longevity and increasing the retirement age when growth is driven by … the retirement age fosters economic growth. How economic growth changes in response to rising life expectancy depends on … the retirement response. Employing numerical analysis we find that the requirement for experiencing a growth stimulus from …
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function. Differences in population growth rates, life-expectancies, retirement durations, and the degree of concavity of the … growth trap” in economies where life expectancy is short, fertility rates are high, and households work most of their lives …
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We study the effects of a labor-intensive health care sector within an R&D-driven growth model with overlapping generations. Health care increases longevity and labor participation/productivity. We examine under which conditions expanding health care enhances growth and welfare. Even if the...
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We study the effects of a labor-intensive health care sector within an R&D-driven growth model with overlapping generations. Health care increases longevity and labor participation/productivity. We examine under which conditions expanding health care enhances growth and welfare. Even if the...
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We show that the long-run economic growth effect of an increase in the retirement age is unambiguously positive in …-by-doing-spillovers, in which an increase in the retirement age reduces physical capital accumulation and thereby economic growth. Our results …
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We study adverse selection on annuity markets in a general-equilibrium model of the closed economy. Agents differ in their health type and invest their assets on the annuity market. Without informational asymmetries themodel features a separating equilibrium in which each agent obtains an...
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It is widely accepted that environmental and demographic changes will significantly influence the future of our society. In recent years, an increasing number of studies has analyzed the interlinkages among economic growth, environmental factors and a specific demographic variable, namely life...
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endogenous fertility. In the neoclassical model, habits modify the economy's growth rate and generate transitional dynamics in … fertility; station- ary income per capita is associated with either increasing or decreasing population and output, depending on … fertility: the trade-off between second-period consumption and spending for bequests prompts agents to decrease fertility in …
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