In den nächsten Dekaden wird die Bevölkerung nicht nur in Deutschland immer älter. Gibt es einen statistischen Zusammenhang zwischen der Altersstruktur einer Gesellschaft und zentralen makroökonomischen Variablen? Welche Konsequenzen hat die gesellschaftliche Alterung für die...

Aging of the population will affect the growth path of all countries. To assess the historical and future importance of this claim we use two popular approaches and evaluate their merits and disadvantages by confronting them to Swedish data. We first simulate an endogenous growth model with...

This paper argues that population age structure plays a significant role alongside institutional, technological, political, and cultural factors when it comes to explaining shifts in urban, regional and national economic development. The paper demonstrates how demographic transitions lead to...