Inclusive wealth with a changing but aging population

Rintaro Yamaguchi

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124, issue 1, 21-25

Abstract: We consider the effect of population age distribution in inclusive wealth accounting. Numerical results demonstrate that the wealth of nations with an aging demographic structure, as well as those with a rapidly increasing working-age generation, may have been overestimated.

Keywords: Sustainable development; Genuine savings; Inclusive wealth; Population change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E1 J1 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.04.011

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