the corresponding figures for new workers and retiring workers are respectively about 13.4 years and six years, Lin said, stressing that means China's effective labor input in general actually is on the rise instead of declinin...
Economists argue that Japan either needs to accept more immigrants or put robots to work. Japan's overall population is now declining at the fastest rate globally. The country sells more adult diapers than baby diapers and fewer workers to support an aging population likely leads to poor economic...
Lowest levels are now found in US and Canadian men, whose levels have been declining since the 1980s. Although the increase in life expectancy after World War II is in large part due to the dramatic decrease in infant mortality (30.7 per 1000 live births in 1960 vs 2.0 in 2016) in ...
This is especially impressive considering that Japan has the world’s second lowest infant mortality rate and its third highest average life expectancy. The main reason the country’s population is declining is that their total fertility rate is one of the lowest in the world at 1.4 births/...
For a long time, English has been taught through the grammar-translation method at Japanese schools and universities, which is inadequate to say the least. This has resulted in the inability to work in the English language at the workplace. With a rapidly aging and declining population, the ...
Is China Increasing or Decreasing Its U.S. Treasuries Holdings? China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries peaked between 2012 and 2016, with a value of over $1.3 trillion. Since then, its size has been slowly declining. It dipped below $1 trillion in mid-2022 for the first time since 2010....
We find that by endogenizing the population growth rate, a growth model under the productive consumption hypothesis is more tractable than models in previo... Ichiroh,Daitoh - 《Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control》 被引量: 6发表: 2010年 The present value of population growth in the weste...
In a period of declining inflation, the central bank is not likely to be "hawkish" (in other words, inclined to aggressively raise interest rates) on monetary policy, which would also stimulate the economy. Deflation is different. Deflation occurs when consumers stop spending any more than neces...
it took 15 years, in Japan 22 years, and it is expected to take 23 years in China. Overall, the population in the region aged 64 or above by 2050 will be larger than today’s by an estimated 425 million—or the populations of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States combin...
As John Ibbitson and I wrote inEmpty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, the forces driving population decline have been in place since at least the turn of the century. The biggest force is urbanization. The largest migration in human history has happened over the last century and...