Author : Mr.Niklas J Westelius
Release : 2017-01-18
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 599/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Impact of Demographics on Productivity and Inflation in Japan by : Mr.Niklas J Westelius
Download or read book The Impact of Demographics on Productivity and Inflation in Japan written by Mr.Niklas J Westelius. This book was released on 2017-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Japan’s aging and, more recently, declining population hampering growth and reflation efforts? Exploiting demographic and economic variation in prefectural data between 1990 and 2007, we find that aging of the working age population has had a significant negative impact on total factor productivity. Moreover, prefectures that aged at a faster pace experienced lower overall inflation, while prefectures with higher population growth experienced higher inflation. The results give strong support to the notion that demographic headwinds can have a non-trivial impact on total factor productivity and deflationary pressures.