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Ageing and Productivity: Introduction

by David E. Bloom and Alfonso Sousa-Poza IZA Discussion Paper No. 7205 Population ageing will be the dominant feature of the world’s demographic landscape in the coming decades, raising concerns about labor productivity and about economic outcomes at both the individual, enterprise, and macro levels. The articles in this special issue of Labour Economics define and [...]

Ageing and Productivity: Introduction

by David E. Bloom and Alfonso Sousa-Poza IZA Discussion Paper no.7205, February 2013 Population ageing will be the dominant feature of the world’s demographic landscape in the coming decades, raising concerns about labor productivity and about economic outcomes at both the individual, enterprise, and macro levels. The articles in this special issue of Labour Economics [...]

Report on Status of Elderly in Select States of India, 2011

UNFPA, 2011 The report covers a primary survey carried out in seven states – Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal – having a higher percentage of population in the age group 60 years and above compared to the national average. The information gathered in this survey includes socio-economic status, work participation and [...]

Aging and the Macroeconomy: Long-Term Implications of an Older Population

National Research Council 2012. The United States is in the midst of a major demographic shift. In the coming decades, people aged 65 and over will make up an increasingly large percentage of the population: The ratio of people aged 65+ to people aged 20-64 will rise by 80%. This shift is happening for two [...]

Ageing in the Twenty-first Century: A Celebration and a Challenge

Published by UNFPA, October 01, 2012 The number of older persons is growing faster than any other age group, says a new report, “Ageing in the Twenty-first Century: A Celebration and a Challenge”, released on October 1st, the International Day of Older Persons, by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and HelpAge International. The new [...]

Social Protection for Older Persons: Social Pensions in Asia

edited by Sri wening handayani and Babken babajanian Published by Asain Development Bank, 2012 The rising number of older persons in Asia has accentuated the importance of strengthening the systems of social protection in the region. This book examines the effectiveness and relevance of noncontributory or social pensions in supporting older persons in Asia. It discusses [...]

Aging in Asia: Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives

James P. Smith and Malay Majmundar, Editors [2012] Aging in Asia: Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives is a peer-reviewed collection of papers from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand that were presented at two conferences organized in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, Indonesian Academy of Sciences, and [...]

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Vol. 34, No. 2 Summer 2012

Contents Editorial Redesigning Long-term Care Finance and Delivery Joan Costa-Font, Martin Karlsson, and Bernard van den Berg Submitted Articles Why Do People Let Their Long-term Care Insurance Lapse? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study Yong Li and Gail A. Jensen Market Structure, Competition from Assisted Living Facilities, and Quality in the Nursing Home Industry [...]

Aging in Asia: Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives

James P. Smith and Malay Majmundar, Editors (2012) Panel on Policy Research and Data Needs to Meet the Challenge of Aging in Asia; Committee on Population; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education The population of Asia is growing both larger and older. Demographically the most important continent on the world, Asia’s population, currently [...]

Developing Asia’s Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support

by Donghyun Park and Gemma Estrada ADBI Working Paper No.358, April 2012 Old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East and Southeast Asia where the population is aging. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic [...]

Innovative Approaches to Managing Longevity Risk in Asia: Lessons from the West

by Amlan Roy ADBI Working Paper No.353, April 2012 This paper discusses what is longevity risk, why it is important, approaches used by the West to manage longevity risk, and what lessons can be learnt by Asian countries from the experiences of the West. Increasing and uncertain longevity has emerged as a key risk affecting [...]

Ageing and Skills A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF SKILL GAIN AND SKILL LOSS OVER THE LIFESPAN AND OVER TIME

by Richard Desjardins,  and Arne Jonas Warnke OECD Education Working Papers No. 72 The relationship between ageing and skills is becoming an important policy issue, not least in the context of population ageing. Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will potentially add considerably to the understanding of the relationship between [...]

Announcing an Increase in the State Pension Age and the Recession: Which Mattered More for Expected Retirement Ages?

Alan Barrett and Irene Mosca Discussion Paper No. 6325 January 2012 In March of 2010, the Irish government announced that the age at which the state pension is paid would be raised to 66 in 2014, 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028. Also during 2010, the economic news became increasingly bad as the full [...]

Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior

C. Sofia Machado Miguel Portela IZA DP No. 6270 Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examines the impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in hours of work is a [...]

Estimating Healthcare Demand for an Aging Population: A flexibleand robust Bayesian Joint Model

by Arnab Mukherji; Satrajit Roychowdhury and Pulak Ghosh IIMB Working Paper No.357, 2011 We propose a joint model to combine models for hospital visits and out-of-pocket medical expenditures. It allows for the presence of non-linear effects of covariates using splines to capture the effects of aging on healthcare demand. Sample heterogeneity is modeled robustly with [...]

Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China: Evidence from CHARLS

Xiaoyan Lei ,John Strauss, Meng Tian and Yaohui Zhao December 2011 IZA DP No. 6249 Recent increases in Chinese elderly living alone or only with a spouse has raised concerns about elderly support, especially when public support is inadequate. However, using rich information from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we find that the [...]

European Economic Review Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2012

Contents 1. IFC – Editorial Board 2. Sick pay provision in experimental labor markets Original Research Article Peter Duersch, Jörg Oechssler, Radovan Vadovic 3. The costs of hiring skilled workers Original Research Article Marc Blatter, Samuel Muehlemann, Samuel Schenker 4. The time-varying integration of euro area government bond markets Original Research Article Lorenzo Pozzi, Guido [...]

Social Protection of Older People

David E. Bloom, Emmanuel Jimenez, and Larry Rosenberg PGDA Working Paper No. 83 November 2011 This paper (a) discusses the vulnerabilities of older people and the benefits of crafting social programs to address them; (b) describes the nature of social protection and the forms it can take to address those vulnerabilities; (c) reports descriptive evidence [...]

Environment And The Aging Experience Among South Indian Hunter-Gatherers

by Seetha Kokkoth Asia Research Centre Working Paper No.53, 2011 There has been much discussion on aging and peoples’ concerns for old age. However, few studies have been done on the aging experience from an emic perspective. This geroanthropological paper makes an attempt to understand the aging experiences of hunter-gatherers viz., the Cholanaickan and the [...]

Why Does Population Aging Matter So Much for Asia? Population Aging, Economic Security and Economic Growth

Sang-Hyop Lee, Andrew Mason, and Donghyun Park ERIA Discussion Paper Series ERIA-DP-2011-04 Date: Aug-2011 Asia as a whole is experiencing a rapid demographic transition toward older population structures. Within this broader region-wide trend, there is considerable heterogeneity, with different countries at different stages of the demographic transition. In this paper, we document Asia’s population aging, [...]

Population Dynamics in India and Implications for Economic Growth

David E. Bloom PROGRAM ON THE GLOBAL  DEMOGRAPHY OF AGING Working Papar No: 65 Date: Jan-2011 Demographic change in India is opening up new economic opportunities. As in many countries, declining infant and child mortality helped to spark lower fertility, effectively resulting in a temporary baby boom. As this cohort moves into working ages, India [...]

No Country for Old Men: Aging Dictators and Economic Growth

Richard Jong-A-Pin and Jochen O. Mierau CEB Working Paper N° 11/039 Date: September 2011 This paper develops a model of the relationship between the age of a dictator and economic growth. In the model a dictator must spread the resources of the economy over his reign but faces mortality and political risk. The model shows [...]

The Price of Maturity

by Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason Finance & Development, June 2011, Vol.48, No.2 URL: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2011/06/pdf/lee.pdf Courtesy: IMF

Immigration and growth in an ageing economy

By Joan Muysken and Thomas Ziesemer UNU-MERIT WP-2011-037 This paper argues that immigration can help to alleviate the burden ageing presents for the welfare states of most Western Economies. We develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with the impact of both ageing and immigration on economic growth. This is combined with a detailed model of [...]

Deprivation and vulnerability among elderly in India

Syam Prasad WP-2011-013 Changing age structure is one of structural change that witnessed in the last century. Population ageing is one of its consequences, which emerges as a global phenomenon in the present day. It is generally expressed as older individuals forming large share of the total population. This process is considered to be an [...]

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