Artikel
Aging and regional productivity growth in Germany
We investigate the effects of aging on regional productivity growth, the mechanisms and the strength of which are not well-understood. We focus on two different manifestations of population aging—workforce aging and an increasing share of retirees—and investigate channels through which aging may impact on regional productivity growth for a panel of German counties 2000–2019. We find that workforce aging is more negatively associated with productivity growth in urban than in nonurban regions. A likely reason is that aging is detrimental to innovative and knowledge-intensive activities, which are heavily concentrated in cities. We also find a negative association between the share of the retired population and productivity growth in regions with a small household services sector. A likely reason is that older people’s disproportionate demand for local household services (including health care, recreation) requires a re-allocation of resources from more productive manufacturing or business services to less productive household services. Regions specialized more in highly productive industries have more to lose in this process.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Review of Regional Research ; ISSN: 1613-9836 ; Year: 2023 ; Issue: Latest articles ; Pages: -- ; Berlin: Springer Nature
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Retirement; Retirement Policies
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
- Thema
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Workforce aging
Population aging
Productivity growth
Regional analysis
Germany
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bode, Eckhardt
Dohse, Dirk
Stolzenburg, Ulrich
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer Nature
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Berlin
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2023
- DOI
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doi:10.1007/s10037-023-00188-3
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Bode, Eckhardt
- Dohse, Dirk
- Stolzenburg, Ulrich
- Springer Nature
Entstanden
- 2023