Angesichts des demographischen Wandels gewinnen die Verlängerung der Erwerbstätigkeit und damit auch die Bedingungen für Neueinstellungen im letzten Drittel des Erwerbslebens an Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag untersucht auf mikroökonomischer Grundlage (IABBetriebspanel) betriebliche Merkmale, die...

We integrate age specific productivity differentials into a long-run neoclassical growth model for the Austrian economy with a highly disaggregated labor supply structure. We assume two life time productivity profiles reflecting either small or large hump-shaped productivity differentials and...

We use a large household panel for Japan (Keio Household Panel Survey) to estimate household-size economies in energy consumption. The household-size economies we obtain are significant and sizable: the per-capita energy-related spending of a two-adult household is only about two-thirds of the...

The paper examines the effects of demographic change on federal, state and local governments in Germany with a focus on the expenditure side to answer the question, whether demographic change will induce vertical fiscal expenditure imbalances. We present estimates of the impact of demographic...

We analyse the adjustment of public education spending in response to rapidly decreasing student cohorts in East Germany where birth rates collapsed after German reunification. Previous results from the literature based on data from more stable demographic periods suggest that public resources...

Die demographische Alterung stellt eine bedeutende Herausforderung der deutschen Gesundheitspolitik dar. Die zentrale Frage lautet heute nicht mehr, ob die Bevölkerung immer älter wird, sondern ob hinzugewonnene Lebensjahre bei guter Gesundheit verbracht werden können. In diesem Beitrag wird...

The paper shows the effect of demographic change on per capita burden of financing a PAYG social security system in the standard OLG model with frictional labor markets. Rising longevity and decreasing fertility both induce a rise in the employment level via increased capital accumulation and...

This paper discusses an application of re-weighting to account for demographic change within a comparative micro-simulation setting. We use the Slovenian and Lithuanian components of the EUROMOD micro-simulation model with data referring to demographic characteristics of the population in 2010...

Die Zukunft der Arbeit wird vom technischen Fortschritt, der Globalisierung, dem demographischen Wandel und institutionellen Veränderungen geprägt. Daraus entwickelt sich in Fortschreibung jüngerer Entwicklungen eine vielfältige Arbeitswelt mit erheblichen Unterschieden der...

The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...