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Effects Of Demographic Structure In Growth Accounting And Labour Market Decompositions

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  • Petr Malecek

    (Alpiq Energy SE and University of Economics and Business)

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Impact of demographic structure on labor market and macroeconomic aggregates might be pronounced in some countries. Despite this fact, only a handful of approaches dealing with quantifications such effects have been derived so far. The aim of this paper is therefore to fill this methodological gap and to introduce methodological approaches for capturing changes in demographic structure, with many applications in growth accounting and labor market decompositions. Firstly, a novel additive decomposition will be presented, as an alternative to traditional models using fixed population weights. This will be followed by the presentation of a multiplicative decomposition, which can be applied to all kinds of growth accounting exercises based on multiplicative identities.

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  • Petr Malecek, 2021. "Effects Of Demographic Structure In Growth Accounting And Labour Market Decompositions," International Journal of Economic Sciences, European Research Center, vol. 10(2), pages 104-114, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aop:jijoes:v:10:y:2021:i:2:p:104-114
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    Keywords

    demographics; demographic structure; labour market; decomposition; growth accounting;
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    JEL classification:

    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
    • C02 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Mathematical Economics

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