IMF Working Papers

Demographic Dynamics and the Empirics of Economic Growth

By Michael Sarel

December 1, 1994

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Michael Sarel. Demographic Dynamics and the Empirics of Economic Growth, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed September 19, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines the effects of demographic dynamics on the measured rates of economic growth. First, it develops a model of production with labor productivity that varies with age. Second, it uses macroeconomic and demographic data to estimate the relative productivity of different age groups. Third, it constructs a panel database of effective labor supply in order to reflect the changing age-structure of the population. Fourth, it decomposes the historical measured growth rates into effects of demographic dynamics and into “real” growth rates, net of demographic effects.

Subject: Aging, Expenditure, Labor, Labor supply, Population and demographics, Production, Productivity, Public expenditure review

Keywords: Aging, Database result, Economic growth, Labor supply, Net productivity, Panel database, Productivity, Productivity coefficient, Public expenditure review, United Nations data, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1994/143

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1431994

  • ISBN:

    9781451926880

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 42, No. 2, June 1995.