Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2016
. Fertility is the largest of the contributors in Japan. If there are no demographic changes in Japan, the DR will be 0.88 by 2050 … dependency ratio (DR), is currently about 0.64. In the immediate pre-WWII era it was even higher because Japan's total fertility …In this short note I simulate the DR under various conditions and make comparisons with the US. Japan has experienced a …