Population Futures
Twelve connected studies of ageing, work, fertility, retirement, inheritance and fiscal pressure.
Shared record
Assumptions, models, and open questions
No assumption name is registered on more than one study in this series.
Constant-price scenario accounting is shared across the series where the manuscripts say so.
Each study keeps its own registered model.
No shared microdata file is published for the series.
Published contradictions: 0. Published qualifying links: 0.
Unresolved questions
- What are the demographic and financial limits of retirement at 60?
- How does youth unemployment, followed across a lifetime, become old-age dependence?
- Does raising the retirement age still work once youth unemployment, productivity, and disability are taken into account?
- How can voter age structure redirect spending and intergenerational transfers?
- Which policy packages for closing an ageing-related fiscal deficit are examined for lower welfare loss?
- When does fertility support become cheaper than financing demographic decline?
- How would education, work, housing, and family life be redesigned for lives of 100 to 120 years?
- What is the economic difference when inheritance arrives at 40, 55, 70, or 85?
- What happens to housing, cities, and public infrastructure under population contraction?
- Can automation, productivity, and immigration substitute for missing workers?
- How do the population studies connect as one policy system?
- How could emergency government measures introduced in 2050 alter the population system?
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