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The Advantages of Demographic Change after the Wave: Fewer and Older, but Healthier, Greener, and More Productive?
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Abstract Population aging is an inevitable global demographic process. Most of the literature on the consequences of demographic change focuses on the economic and societal challenges that we will face as people live longer and have fewer children. In this paper, we (a) briefly describe key trends and projec... mehr
Population aging is an inevitable global demographic process. Most of the literature on the consequences of demographic change focuses on the economic and societal challenges that we will face as people live longer and have fewer children. In this paper, we (a) briefly describe key trends and projections of the magnitude and speed of population aging; (b) discuss the economic, social, and environmental consequences of population aging; and (c) investigate some of the opportunities that aging societies create. We use Germany as a case study. However, the general insights that we obtain can be generalized to other developed countries. We argue that there may be positive unintended side effects of population aging that can be leveraged to address pressing environmental problems and issues of gender inequality and intergenerational ties.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bevölkerungsentwicklung; Bevölkerungsstruktur; demographische Lage; demographische Alterung; ökonomische Entwicklung; soziale Entwicklung; ökologische Folgen; Fallstudie; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; demographischer Übergang; Altern
Klassifikation
Bevölkerung
Freie Schlagwörter
German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) 1984-2011; EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS); Human Mortality Database (HMD); Income and Expenditure Survey 2003; Time Use Survey 2001/02; National Transfer Account data
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2014
Seitenangabe
S. 1-11
Zeitschriftentitel
PLOS ONE, 9 (2014) 9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108501
ISSN
1932-6203
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)