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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Autore principale: Westelius, Niklas
Altri autori: Liu, Yihan
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/237
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF