The Impact of Demographics on Productivity and Inflation in Japan /

Is Japan's aging and, more recently, declining population hampering growth and reflation efforts? Exploiting demographic and economic variation in prefectural data between 1990 and 2007, we find that aging of the working age population has had a significant negative impact on total factor produ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Westelius, Niklas
Other Authors: Liu, Yihan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/237
Online Access:Full text available on IMF