Demographics and Productivity

By James D. Feyrer. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007

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This paper examines the relationship between workforce demographics and aggregate productivity. Changes in the age structure of the workforce are found to be significantly correlated with changes in aggregate productivity. Different demographic structures may be related to almost one-quarter of the persistent productivity gap between the OECD and low-income nations as well as part of the productivity divergence between 1960 and 1990.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Demographic Structure and Macroeconomic Trends (2019, neutral): “As our estimation results point out, as well as results from the literature of demographics and productivity and innovation (see Jones (2010) and Feyrer (2008)) and demographics and entrepreneurship (see Liang, Wang, and Lazear (2014)), young and middle age workers are relatively more important in t”
Are Any Growth Theories Robust (2008, background): “Aiyar and Feyrer (2002) study the links between human capital accumulation and growth in TFP.”
Age, resistance to change, and job performance (2013, background): “longevity will necessitate that companies find ways to cope with an increasingly aging workforce (Feyrer, 2007; Peeters and van Emmerik, 2009).”
The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth, the Labor Force, and Productivity (2016, positive): “Although not focused on aging per se, most relevant to our paper are a pair of studies by Feyrer (2007, 2008) that estimate the realized effect of changes in the age distribution of workers on changes in total factor productivity using a panel of OECD and low-income countries between 1960 and…”
Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China (2015, neutral): “Shimer (2001) details how the age distribution impacts unemployment rates; Feyrer (2007) relates demographic change to productivity growth; and Jaimovich and Siu (2009) and Lugauer (2012) connect the age distribution to the magnitude of business cycles.”