An Input-Output Approach to the Estimation of the Maximum Attainable Economic Dependency Ratio in four European Economies

Mariolis, Theodore and Soklis, George and Groza, Heleni (2010): An Input-Output Approach to the Estimation of the Maximum Attainable Economic Dependency Ratio in four European Economies.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore, in terms of input-output models, the proximate determinants of the maximum attainable Economic Dependency Ratio and to provide estimates of that ratio in four European economies (Finnish, German, Greek, Spanish). The evaluation of the results reveals certain central socio-technical features of the actual economies under consideration.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Austrian rate of surplus labour, net labour saving from trade, economic dependency ratio-consumptions-growth frontier
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity; D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium > D57 - Input-Output Tables and Analysis; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C67 - Input-Output Models

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