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- Vandenbroucke, Guillaume, 2021. "The baby boomers and the productivity slowdown," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).
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Keywords
Demography; baby boom; aggregate productivity; productivity slowdown; human capital;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2018-12-24 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-EFF-2018-12-24 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-LAB-2018-12-24 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2018-12-24 (Macroeconomics)
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