Population Aging, Productivity, and Living Standards

William Scarth
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William Scarth: Professor of Economics, McMaster University

A chapter in The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress 2002: Towards a Social Understanding of Productivity, 2002, vol. 2 from Centre for the Study of Living Standards

Abstract: In this chapter, William Scarth examines the relationship between population aging, productivity and growth in living standards and reaches a more optimistic conclusion about the effects of aging on productivity. Indeed, he finding that aging may in fact lead to increases in productivity, even if no policy initiative is taken. He argues that our economy possesses at least three adjustment mechanisms that insulate living standards from the adverse effects of an aging population.

Keywords: Aging; Ageing; Population Aging; Demography; Demographic Shift; Baby Boomers; Baby Boom; Dependence; Indebtedness; Debt; Investment; Productivity; Simulation; Growth; Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J14 J24 J26 E66 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
ISBN: 0-88645-198-1
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