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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786480103321

Autore

Park Seok

Titolo

Quantifying Impact of Aging Population on Fiscal Space / / Seok Park

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-7203-4

1-4755-6875-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (26 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Finance, Public

Population policy

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Taxation

Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General

Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Fiscal Policy

Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies

Labor Economics: General

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Public finance & taxation

Welfare & benefit systems

Labour

income economics

Revenue administration

Fiscal space

Labor taxes

Labor

Expenditure

Revenue

Fiscal policy

Income tax

Labor economics

Expenditures, Public

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Model; III. Calibration; IV. Results; V. Concluding Remarks; Tables; 1. Parameters for Labor/Leisure Choice; 2. Variables to be Calibrated for Country-Specific Data; 3. Parameters Common to Countries; Figures; 1. Hours Worked Per Person and Aging Trend; 2. Aging Trend and Changes in Parameters for Labor/Leisure Decision; 3. Labor Laffer Curve with CD Preference; 4. Labor Laffer Curve with CFE Preference; 5. Capital Laffer Curve with CD Preference; 6. Capital Laffer Curve with CFE Preference; 7. Tax Revenue Decomposition and Tax Bases

8. Tax Revenue Ratio, Hours Worked, and Output 9. Iso-Revenue Curve (CD Preference); 10. Decrease in Fiscal Space vs. Decrease in Labor Supply; References

Sommario/riassunto

This paper quantitatively investigates how population aging trend affects fiscal space measured as unused revenue generating capacity by utilizing a standard neoclassical growth model. A calibration exercise for G-7 countries shows that France, Germany and Italy suffer greater revenue impact from a given reduction in hours worked due to their larger government expenditure. Corrective measures such as pension reform and flexible expenditure policy would be required in order to mitigate the impact of aging on fiscal space.