Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96987 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers No. 6/2009
Publisher: 
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Vienna
Abstract: 
Persistent low fertility rates lead to lower population growth rates and eventually also to decreasing population sizes in most industrialized countries. There are fears that this demographic development is associated with declines in per capita GDP and possibly also increasing inequality of the wage distribution. We investigate whether this is true in the context of neoclassical growth models, augmented with endogenous fertility decisions and endogenous educational decisions. Furthermore we allow for imperfect substitutability across workers of different age in the production process and learning by doing effects as well as human capital depreciation. In particular, we assess the intergenerational wage redistribution effects which follow after a demographic change to persistent low fertility rates.
Subjects: 
Population decline
economic growth
intergenerational wage gap
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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