The Welfare State and the demographic dividend: A cross-country comparison [PDF]
The sustainability of the welfare state is in doubt in many developed countries due to drastic population ageing. The extent of the problem and the margin for reforms depend - among other factors - on the size of the ageing process and the size of the ...
Abío, Gemma +3 more
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Demographic ageing and its influence on current lung transplant practice. [PDF]
Alvarez A, Moreno P.
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Population Ageing in New Zealand: The Impact on Living Standards and the Optimal Rate of Saving with a Flexible Real Exchange Rate [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to extend the simulation analysis of population ageing in Guest, Bryant and Scobie (2003). In that paper a single-good Ramsey-Solow model was calibrated for New Zealand and used to simulate the impact of population ageing on ...
Grant Scobie, John Bryant, Ross Guest
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Demographic Change and Bank Profitability. Empirical Evidence from German Savings Banks [PDF]
Most European economies will experience significant demographic changes in the decades ahead. Due to low birth rates, populations are shrinking and ageing at the same time. This paper explores the impact of demographic change on the banking industry.
Marcel Thum +2 more
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The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]
Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
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The Impact of Age Distribution Variables on the Long Run Consumption Function [PDF]
Modigliani's Life Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) predicts that demographic variables should play a significant role in our understanding of the relationship between consumption and income.
Clifford L.F. Attfield, Edmund Cannon
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Population Ageing In New Zealand: Implications for Living Standards and the Optimal Rate of Saving [PDF]
Over the next 50 years, New Zealand’s population will age substantially. There has been wide debate about whether New Zealand should prepare for population ageing by increasing national savings.
Grant Scobie, John Bryant, Ross Guest
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The impact of demographic uncertainty on public finances in the Netherlands [PDF]
This paper presents stochastic simulations, i.e. simulations that combine the CGE model of the Dutch economy GAMMA with stochastic population projections, to quantify uncertainties surrounding the consequences of population ageing for Dutch public ...
Alex Armstrong +2 more
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Demographic Uncertainty and Labour Market Imperfections in Small Open Economy [PDF]
This paper extends Gertler's (1999) tractable overlapping generations model by allowing for imperfect labour markets and distortionary taxation. Furthermore, we allow for stochastic variation in demographic structure.
Antti Ripatti +2 more
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Working Paper 02-08 - Long-term population projections in Europe: How they influence policies and accelerate reforms [PDF]
The long-term demographic projections have progressively raised concerns about the consequences of ageing population. To better understand those changes and measure their size,projections of social expenditure have been built and progressively refined ...
Henri Bogaert
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