Long-run impact of economic growth on fertility trends is ambiguous and sensitive for in-time variations. Noticeably, over last decades, economic growth has led in many countries to significant falls in total fertility rates. However, recently, in highincome economies a kind of 'fertility...

Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that ageing causes a decline on economic growth as claimed by Martins et al., (2005). The sample covers all western world and the United States. Data are taken from Eurostat and OECD. The elaboration of these panel data is made feasible...