Growing Old and Staying Young: Population Policy in an Ageing Closed Economy

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Growing Old and Staying Young: Population Policy in an Ageing Closed Economy

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Bas van Groezen ()
Lex Meijdam ()

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This paper analyses the relation between public pensions, fertility and child care in a closed economy OLG-model with endogenous fertility. It it shown that it is optimal to introduce child allowances if the government redistributes income from the young to the old, and rises when longevity increases.

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Paper provided by Utrecht School of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 04-28.

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- Bas Groezen & Lex Meijdam, 2008. "Growing old and staying young: population policy in an ageing closed economy," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 21(3), pages 573-588, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped
J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2005-10-29 (All new papers)
NEP-DGE-2005-10-29 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
NEP-PBE-2005-10-29 (Public Economics)

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Luciano Fanti & Luca Gori, 2008. "Human capital, income, fertility and child policy," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 9(7), pages 1-7. [Downloadable!]
Robert Fenge & Volker Meier, 2009. "Are family allowances and fertility-related pensions perfect substitutes?," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 137-163, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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