Population aging, consumption budget allocation and sectoral growth

China Economic Review

Volumn 30, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-65

  Mao, Rui ^a   Xu, Jianwei ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age effect; Domestic consumption; Personal budget allocation; Population aging; Unbalanced growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902336489     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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