This blog post quantifies impact of demographic shifts and finds that they lowered unemployment rate by approximately 0.4 ...

In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...

This paper uses a perfect foresight life cycle simulation model to examine the dynamic economic effects of baby "booms" and baby "busts" as well as the interaction of such demographic changes with ...

Source: BlacknoseDace/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It seems we are surrounded by a generation of singles. Therapy sessions, workshops, and the psychology literature are fixated on the ultimate ...

Stephen E. Haynes, Llad Phillips and Harold L. Votey, Jr. The structural change model of the demographic transition developed by Easterlin and others is explored empirically by applying the Brown, ...

The High-level event provided an opportunity for Member States and stakeholders to evaluate investments needed to reap the demographic dividend, including through employment opportunities for young ...

Changes in the demographic makeup of populations are a significant factor contributing to the rise of singledom. In the wake of what researchers call the second demographic transition, fewer people ...

Vietnam is going through the demographic transition to an older society at an earlier stage of economic development and a lower level of per capita income than other countries who have experienced a ...

AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...

How policymakers respond to Europe’s many challenges—from Russian aggression to sluggish economic growth to the shift to clean energy – will shape the continent for decades to come. In the face of ...