Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180932 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
QSEP Research Report No. 462
Publisher: 
McMaster University, Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population (QSEP), Hamilton (Ontario)
Abstract: 
A shift in population distribution toward older ages is underway in industrialised countries throughout the world and will continue well into the future. We provide a framework for isolating the pure effects of population aging on per capita GDP, employ the framework in calculations for twenty OECD countries, and derive the rates of productivity growth required to offset those effects. We consider also some labour-related changes that might provide offsets, for comparison with productivity.
Subjects: 
population aging
productivity
industrialised countries
projections
JEL: 
J1
J11
O4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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