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

Birth rates are dropping to ever-lower levels around the world. Populations are growing more slowly and, in some cases, beginning to decline. Rapid population aging has begun in the West and parts of Asia and is just over the horizon elsewhere. The demographic changes, their economic implications, a...

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Other Authors Mason, Andrew, 1947-, Yamaguchi, Mitoshi
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2007.
SeriesContributions to economic analysis ; v. 281.
Subjects
Business & Economics > Economics > Theory.
Business & Economics > Development > Sustainable Development.
Labour economics.
Sustainable development.
Labor economics.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849508643
ISSN0573-8555 ;
DOI10.1016/S0573-8555(2007)281
Physical Description1 online resource (vii, 272 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mitoshi Yamaguchi
  • Job opportunities for older workers : when are jobs filled with external hires? / Robert Hutchens
  • Skills, wages, and the employment of older workers / Naoki Mitani
  • Work-life balance measures and gender division of labor / Akira Kawaguchi
  • Optimal education policies under an equity-efficiency trade-off / Takashi Oshio
  • Why are Japanese refusing to pay the national pension Tax? A simultaneous equation analysis / Noriko Aoki
  • A century of demographic change and economic growth : the Asian experience in regional and temporal perspective / Robert M. Schmidt
  • Evolution of recent economic-demographic modeling : a synthesis / Robert M. Schmidt
  • Demographic dividends : the past, the present, and the future / Andrew Mason
  • Demographic change and regional economic growth : a comparative analysis of Japan and China / Mitoshi Yamaguchi.

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