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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Review of Regional Research ; ISSN: 1613-9836 ; Year: 2023 ; Issue: Latest articles ; Pages: -- ; Berlin: Springer Nature

Klassifikation
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
Workforce aging
Population aging
Productivity growth
Regional analysis
Germany

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bode, Eckhardt
Dohse, Dirk
Stolzenburg, Ulrich
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer Nature
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2023

DOI
doi:10.1007/s10037-023-00188-3
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Bode, Eckhardt
  • Dohse, Dirk
  • Stolzenburg, Ulrich
  • Springer Nature

Entstanden

  • 2023

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