Precautionary public health, ageing and urban agglomeration

Tohru Naito (), Daisuke Ikazaki () and Tatsuya Omori ()
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Tohru Naito: Doshisha University
Daisuke Ikazaki: Japan Women’s University
Tatsuya Omori: Chukyo University

Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2017, vol. 1, issue 2, No 20, 655-669

Abstract: Abstract Introducing precautionary public health policy into an overlapping generations model with migration of households between regions, we discuss the causality between ageing and urban agglomeration. We analyze the effect of public policy to expand longevity on an equilibrium population distribution between an urban region and a rural region in a steady state. As the result of our analysis, it is possible that the promotion of precautionary public health policy leads to enlarge wage differentials and enlarge regional disparity.

Keywords: Precautionary health policy; Longevity; Ageing population distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 I18 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s41685-017-0056-y

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