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Population aging and inequality : evidence from the People's Republic of China
Chen, Xudong; Huang, Bihong; Li, Shaoshuai - 2017
analysis, we use household data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to assess the age effect on income and consumption … inequality in the People’s Republic of China and confirm the results predicted by the theoretical model. …
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Does composition matter? : wage inequality and the demographic and educational structure of the labor force in Gemany
Klemm, Marcus; Weigert, Benjamin - 2014 - This version: November 2014
This paper addresses the importance of compositional changes in the labor force for the development of the wage distribution. Demographic change and higher educational attainment imply a shift toward employees with more experience and/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher...
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Sharing High Growth across Generations : Pensions and Demographic Transition in China
Song, Zheng Michael - 2013
Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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Macroeconomic and distributional effects of demographic change in an open economy : the case of Belgium
Devriendt, Willem; Heylen, Freddy - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 86 (2020) 1, pp. 87-124
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Will China's Demographic Transition Exacerbate its Income Inequality? A CGE Modeling with Top-Down Microsimulation
Wang, Xinxin - 2016
especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than have most industrial economies. This …
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Global growth, ageing, and inequality across and within generations
Fehr, Hans; Jokisch, Sabine; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - In: Oxford review of economic policy 26 (2010) 4, pp. 636-654
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Global Growth, Aging and Inequality Across and within Generations
Fehr, Hans; Jokisch, Sabine; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2010
of capital and labor, particularly unskilled labor. The good news for the developed world is that China and India will … unskilled workers reflects, in large part, simply the fact that China and India are gradually bringing each of their skill …
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...
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Demographic Change and the European Income Distribution
Dolls, Mathias - 2018
This paper assesses the effect of key demographic changes (population ageing and upskilling) that are expected by 2030 on the income distribution in the EU-27 and examines the potential of tax-benefit systems to counterbalance negative developments. Theory predicts that population ageing should...
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More pensioners, less income inequality? : the impact of changing age composition on inequality in big cities and elsewhere
Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, Dave C.; Poot, Jacques - 2017
As is the case in most developed countries, the population of New Zealand is ageing numerically and structurally. Population ageing can have important effects on the distribution of personal income within and between urban areas. The age structure of the population may affect the distribution of...
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