Population change, labor markets, and sustainable growth : towards a new economic paradigm /

Other Authors: Mason, Andrew,, Yamaguchi, Mitoshi,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007.
Series:Contributions to economic analysis, 281
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505 0 0 |a Cover -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Evolution of Recent Economic-Demographic Modeling: A Synthesis -- 2.1. Productivity and translations as an organizing framework -- 2.2. Expanding the theory: Elaborating the roles of population -- 2.3. Toward an empirical rendering of population and growth -- 2.4. Population matters: But how, and by how much? -- 2.5. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 3 A Century of Demographic Change and Economic Growth: The Asian Experience in Regional and Temporal Perspective -- 3.1. Modeling population in development -- 3.2. A Return to basics: Saving, investment, and capital flows -- Appendix: Robustness experiments and future directions for modeling the impact of dependency on savings and investment -- References -- Chapter 4 Demographic Dividends: The Past, the Present, and the Future -- 4.1. Two demographic dividends -- 4.2. The second demographic dividend -- 4.3. Combining the first and second dividends -- 4.4. Final remarks and qualifications -- References -- Chapter 5 Demographic Change and Regional Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and China -- 5.1. Model and Data -- 5.2. Results -- 5.3. Conclusion -- Appendix 5.1 -- Appendix 5.2 -- References -- Chapter 6 Job Opportunities for Older Workers: When Are Jobs Filled with External Hires? -- 6.1. The literature -- 6.2. Theory and hypotheses -- 6.3. The data -- 6.4. Multivariate results -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Skills, Wages, and the Employment of Older Workers -- 7.1. Theoretical considerations -- 7.2. Skill profiles, occupational groups, and employment indices of older workers -- 7.3. Slopes of the wage profile and wage differentials -- 7.3. Displacement effects of older workers on new school leavers -- 7.4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Work-Life Balance Measures and Gender Division of Labor -- 8.1. Work-life balance meaures in Japan -- 8.2. Theoretical discussion -- 8.3. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Optimal Education Policies Under an Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off -- 9.1. Theoretical analysis -- 9.2. Numerical simulations -- 9.3. Extension: Public education plus income redistribution -- 9.4. Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10 Why Are Japanese Refusing to Pay the National Pension Tax? A Simultaneous Equation Analysis -- 10.1. Hypotheses -- 10.2. Estimation results for 47 prefectures -- 10.3. Estimation results for the seven regions of Japan -- 10.4. Conclusion -- Appendix 10.1 -- Appendix 10.2 -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Last Page. 
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