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How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world … will be characterized for the coming decades by aging populations. Changes in the age distribution of a population are an …
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Many studies analyzed in depth how aging affects aggregate economic performance. But analyses of these effects on the … sectoral labor productivity are all likely to adjust to aging and will change. Hence, regression analysis of sectoral … employment shares is proposed that controls for aging. For a large panel of countries and a long time period it is found that …
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The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative …
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Our study represents a first attempt to single out the effects of aging on the entire structure of the economy that is … factors - e.g. income per capita, share of trade in GDP, government consumption share in GDP, population size - aging does … the aging proxies exerts a statistically significant adverse effect on the employment shares in agriculture, manufacturing …
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This paper develops a model of the relationship between the age of a dictator and economic growth. In the model a dictator must spread the resources of the economy over his reign but faces mortality and political risk. The model shows that if the time horizon of the dictator decreases, either...
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How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world … will be characterized for the coming decades by aging populations. Changes in the age distribution of a population are an …
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aging. Controlling for socio-demographic factors, we find higher levels of well-being for older persons relative to their …
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Skilled workers emigrate from developing countries in rising numbers, raising fears of a drain on the human and financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of...
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This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review … the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We … subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications of migration in the context of aging for labor markets, health and …
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