The response of aggregate production to fertility-induced changes in population age distribution

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 606-619

  Denton, Frank T ^a   Mountain, Dean C ^a   Spencer, Byron G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH REPORT; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH REPORT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGREGATE PRODUCTION; FERTILITY IMPACT; INCOME IMPACT; MODELLING APPROACH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRODUCTION RESPONSE;

EID: 0029665937     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1060882     Document Type: Article

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