Agglomeration processes in aging societies

2010/01/01 by Theresa Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Klaus Prettner, Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa +1 · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Economic Growth and Productivity #Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies #Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.57938/51118d49-23d9-46a9-b8e9-a9c9bde79c52

openalex publication_date 2010/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

This article investigates agglomeration processes in aging societies by introducing an overlapping generation structure into a New Economic Geography model. Whether higher economic integration leads to spatial concentration of economic activity crucially hinges on the economies' demographic properties. While population aging as represented by declining birth rates strengthens agglomeration processes, declining mortality rates weaken them. This is due to the fact that we allow for nonconstant population size. In particular, we show that population growth acts as an important dispersion force that augments the distributional effects on agglomeration processes resulting from the turnover of generations. (author's abstract)

Citations

• Beschäftigungseffekte des österreichischen Osthandels. 1989 - 1994.
• Explaining foreign ownership by comparative and competitive advantage. Empirical evidence.
• The Austrian Social Partnership and Democracy
• The investment development path of Austria
• Product differentiation in a linear city and wage bargaining
• Uncertain Lifetime, Life Insurance, and the Theory of the Consumer
• Speculation-led growth and fragility in Turkey: Does EU make a difference or "can it happen again"?
• The controversy over employment policy: Low labor costs and openness, or demand policy? A sectoral analysis for Turkey.
• Testing the tax competition theory. How elastic are national tax bases in Western Europe?
• Theorie optimaler Lohnräume. Zur Lohnpolitik in der Europäischen Währungsunion.
• Austrian Manufacturing Firms Abroad - The Last 100 Years

Cited by

• From rags to riches? Intergenerational transmission of income in Europe

Related

• Agglomeration and Population Aging in a Two Region Model of Exogenous Growth
• Demographic change, growth and agglomeration
• An inevitably aging world -- Analysis on the evolutionary pattern of age structure in 200 countries
• Demographic changes and asset prices in an overlapping generations model
• Fertility of populations as a function of the attained level of life expectancy in the course of human evolution