Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective

July 1, 2005

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Mehmet S Tosun. Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and labor-sending countries. Numerical simulations show that the developed region benefits more from international labor mobility through the contribution of migrant workers as laborers, savers, and voters. The developing region experiences significant growth in all specifications but benefits more under international capital mobility. Restricting political participation of migrant workers in the developed region produces inferior growth results.

Subject: Aging, Education spending, Human capital, Labor, Labor mobility

Keywords: Fiscal policy, WP

Publication Details

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35
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Working Paper No. 2005/140
Stock No:

WPIEA2005140
ISBN:

9781451861594
ISSN:

1018-5941

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