Some macroeconomic aspects of global population aging

Demography

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Ronald ^a   Mason, Andrew ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INVESTMENT; PENSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAX;

ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; INVESTMENTS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PENSIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TAXES;

EID: 79952264296     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2010.0002     Document Type: Article

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