Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit den ökonomischen Effekten des demographischen Wandels in den Industrieländern. Zunächst wird ein kurzer Überblick über die künftigen Bevölkerungsentwicklungen und die in der Literatur diskutierten ökonomischen Wirkungen gegeben. Im Rahmen eines allgemeinen...

In letzter Zeit werden zahlreiche Reformvorschläge diskutiert, wie die ökonomischen Folgen des demographischen Wandels in den Industrieländern abgemildert werden können. Im Mittelpunkt stehen hierbei vor allem Maßnahmen, welche die Geburtenraten, die Rolle von Zuwanderung und Reformen des...

The world's leading economies, both developed and developing, are engaged in an ever-changing economic symbiosis that is governed in large part by demographics and technological change, but also by pension, healthcare, and other fiscal policies. This interconnected economic evolution--what...

The developed world stands at the fore of a phenomenal demographic transition. Over the next 30 years the number of elderly in the OECD countries will more than double. At the same time, the number of workers available to pay the elderly their government-guaranteed pension and health care...

All countries in the European Union stand at the fore of a phenomenal demographic transition. Especially Germany will realize an enormous aging of its population. The reasons for this development are twofold: On the one hand, the number of elderly will more than double over the coming decades....

America's aging coupled with high and growing old–age health and pension benefits augers for much higher payroll taxes, with damaging effects on the U.S. economy. This prognosis is supported by our analysis of a detailed dynamic life–cycle general equilibrium model. The FairTax, which...