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We study the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on the macroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy. An overlapping-generations model is constructed which includes a realistic description of the mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal...
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With population ageing, fiscal consolidation has become of paramount importance for euro area countries. Consolidation … can be pursued in various ways, with different effects on potential growth, which itself will be dragged down by ageing. A … pension replacement rates and repaying public debt through a lower ratio of non ageing-related outlays to GDP, c) raising the …
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Brazil’s public pension expenditure is about 9 per cent of GDP, above the OECD average. Given that OECD countries are generally not only wealthier, but also significantly older, Brazil’s pension expenditures are clearly excessive, draining resources away from other areas, such as much needed...
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This paper estimates and discusses some of the potential labour market implications arising from the rapid ageing of …
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The long-term sustainability of the public finance in the context of population ageing is becoming a hot topic in most … ageing assuming a preservation of the current Czech pension security scheme in the period up to 2050. The analysis is based …
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. This study concentrates on the effects of ageing on the evolution of global interest rates and financial flows. The study …
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. This study concentrates on the effects of ageing on the evolution of global interest rates and financial flows. The study …
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The paper examines formation and sustainability of Pay-As-You-Go pension systems within the consequences of the ageing …, reciprocal causation between pension systems and ageing is stressed. The paper concludes that the World Bank’s first pillar …
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ageing. When the responses of labour supply, wages, and hence private consumption, to higher taxation are consistently … accounted for, population ageing has clearly much larger effects on public finance, when compared to mechanical sustainability … burden of ageing. This is due to the fact that stochastic variation in the length of working time has only a relatively small …
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In this chapter, William Scarth examines the relationship between population aging, productivity and growth in living standards and reaches a more optimistic conclusion about the effects of aging on productivity. Indeed, he finding that aging may in fact lead to increases in productivity, even...
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