Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50400 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
KOF Working Papers No. 214
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich
Abstract: 
Our study represents a first attempt to single out the effects of aging on the entire structure of the economy that is approximated by employment shares in different sectors. We find that even after controlling for the effects of other relevant factors - e.g. income per capita, share of trade in GDP, government consumption share in GDP, population size - aging does have a statistically significant differentiated impact on the employment shares. In particular, we find that an increase in the aging proxies exerts a statistically significant adverse effect on the employment shares in agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and mining and quarrying industries. At the same time, increasing share of the elderly people in the society positively affects employment shares in community, social, and personal services as well as in the financial sector. In the simulation exercise, we illustrate the effects of aging on the employment structure within the next 45 years.
Subjects: 
Structural change
aging
employment shares
dynamic panel data
JEL: 
J11
O57
C33
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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