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Department of Economics Working Papers,
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics

No 131: Agglomeration processes in aging societies

Theresa Grafeneder-Weissteiner () and Klaus Prettner ()
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Theresa Grafeneder-Weissteiner: Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics & B.A.
Klaus Prettner: Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: This article investigates agglomeration processes in aging societies by introducing an overlapping generation structure into a New Economic Geography model. Whether higher economic integration leads to spatial concentration of economic activity crucially hinges on the economies' demographic properties. While population aging as represented by declining birth rates strengthens agglomeration processes, declining mortality rates weaken them. This is due to the fact that we allow for nonconstant population size. In particular, we show that population growth acts as an important dispersion force that augments the distributional effects on agglomeration processes resulting from the turnover of generations.

JEL-codes: R12; J10; F15; C61 June 2010

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