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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Auteur principal: Westelius, Niklas
Autres auteurs: Liu, Yihan
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/237
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF