Demographics and productivity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Feyrer, James
• 署名单位: Dartmouth College
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest.89.1.100
• 发表日期: 2007-02
• 页码: 100-109
• 关键词: investment

摘要

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.