Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64417 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011-04
Publisher: 
The University of Utah, Department of Economics, Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract: 
This paper presents a classical model of economic growth which incorporates class conflict and induced technological change to show how demographic changes can affect future income distribution and production relations in industrialized countries. Specifically, I use an extended real wage Phillips curve to account for the effects of a social security tax on income distribution and therefore on capital accumulation and employment. In this framework output growth is determined from the supply side by available savings. Analytical and simulation results indicate that the sustainability of an economy with fast population aging over transient paths hinges upon improvements in labor productivity, hence, the specific mechanism of technical progress in place.
Subjects: 
Population aging
Social security tax
Endogenous technical change
JEL: 
E62
E24
O30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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