Attention Economy


Friday, January 18, 2019

Population Growth and Demographics

A growing number of towns around the world are offering homes to newcomers for almost free

Utah Shows How Labor-Force Growth Fuels Economic Growth

How Aging Japan Defied Demographics and Revived Its Economy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-aging-japan-defied-demographics-and-turned-around-its-economy-11547222490

Demographics Matters - Lessons from Japan

Women, foreign workers or robots?
HISAKAZU KATO notes:
“Securing a sufficient labor force is an indispensable condition for sustainable economic growth. As Japan’s population falls, the so-called working age population (from 15 to 64) also declines, so it becomes even more important for our economy to secure a sufficient labor force in the future by expanding women’s participation in the labor market, accepting more foreign workers or substituting human labor with artificial intelligence or robots.”

How big is the wage penalty for mothers?

FRBSF piece on US labor force participation rate