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Publication Date: July 2000
Publisher: Center for Economic and Policy Research
Author(s): Dean Baker
Research Area: Economics
Keywords: Worker productivity; Standard of living; Wage inequality
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The problems of dealing with an aging population have been given considerable attention in many OECD countries in the 1990s. The projections in this paper suggest that this concern may be somewhat misplaced since the potential increase in tax burdens will be dwarfed by productivity growth.