Arbeitspapier

On the long-run growth effect of raising the retirement age

We show that the long-run economic growth effect of an increase in the retirement age is unambiguously positive in research and development based endogenous growth models. This contrasts recent findings based on models of learning-by-doing-spillovers, in which an increase in the retirement age reduces physical capital accumulation and thereby economic growth. Our results imply that models based on learning-by-doing-spillovers, which are often used as a short-cut formulation for research and development based growth models, do not necessarily lead to similar policy conclusions.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECON WPS ; No. 10/2016

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Demographic Economics: General
Retirement; Retirement Policies
Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Thema
demographic change
pension reform
long-run economic growth
R&D-based growth

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kuhn, Michael
Prettner, Klaus
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Group Economics
(wo)
Vienna
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kuhn, Michael
  • Prettner, Klaus
  • Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Group Economics

Entstanden

  • 2016

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