Agglomeration processes in ageing societies

Arbeitspapier

This article investigates agglomeration processes in ageing societies by introducing an overlapping generation structure into a New Economic Geography model. Whether higher economic integration leads to spatial concentration of economic activity crucially hinges on the economies' demographic properties. While population aging as represented by declining birth rates strengthens agglomeration processes, declining mortality rates weaken them. This is due to the fact that we allow for nonconstant population size. In particular, we show that population growth acts as an important dispersion force that augments the distributional effects on agglomeration processes resulting from the turnover of generations.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers ; No. 5/2010

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Demographic Economics: General ; Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
• Subject: Agglomeration ; population aging ; population ; Agglomerationseffekt ; Alternde Bevölkerung ; Bevölkerungswachstum ; Overlapping Generations ; Neue ökonomische Geographie ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa ; Prettner, Klaus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/96991
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