Ageing of most societies is driven by two factors: (1) birth rates are declining and (2) people are living longer … retirement. We develop an overlapping generation model in order to analyse the effects of ageing on the efficiency of retirement … old generation and that ageing makes a transfer via pay-as-you-go pension relatively more attractive. In optimum, the …

the means-tested minimum pension. The microsimulation analysis also provides important findings regarding the extent of …

Equilibrium (CGE) model with a microsimulation framework that exploits the rich detail of household-level data. The results …

In this paper, we examine the effect of suburbanization on obesity rates. Our study is an improvement over the existing … effect of highways on obesity rates within an MSA, particularly the suburbs versus the central city. To estimate the … relationship between obesity and highways, we will use county-level data on obesity rates from the Behavioral Risk Factor …

, ageing region? And how do their motivations fit in the opportunity and necessity dimension? Rural Northumberland (UK) and … rural Drenthe (NL) are both facing a declining workforce and are strongly ageing. By means of semi structured, face …