Demographic alternatives for aging industrial countries: increased total fertility rate, labor force participation, or immigration

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The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the Pacific, China, and, to a lesser extent, North America is projected to be reduced by 29 million by 2025 and by 244 million by 2050. In contrast, the labor force in the South is projected to add some 1.55 billion, predominantly in South and Central Asia and in Sub-Saharan Africa. The demographic policy scenarios to deal with the projected shrinking of the labor forth in the North include moving the total fertility rate back to replacement levels, increasing labor force participation of the existing population through a variety of measures, and filling the demographic gaps through enhanced immigration. The estimations indicate that each of these policy scenarios may partially or even fully compensate for the projected labor force gap by 2050. But a review of the policy measures to make these demographic scenarios happen also suggests that governments may not be able to initiate or accommodate the required change.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1885

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
• Thema: demographic policy ; aging ; fertility rate ; labor force ; migration ; Alternde Bevölkerung ; Bevölkerungspolitik ; Migrationspolitik ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Beschäftigungspolitik ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Vergleich ; Industriestaaten ; Welt

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Holzmann, Robert
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2005

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33495
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ