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Ageing, Health, and Productivity: The Economics of Increased Life Expectancy

Pietro Garibaldi, Joaquim Oliveira Martins, and Jan van Ours

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780199587131

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587131.001.0001

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The Impact of Health on Productivity and Growth

The Impact of Health on Productivity and Growth

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(p.73) 5 The Impact of Health on Productivity and Growth
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Ageing, Health, and Productivity
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Brigitte Dormont

Joaquim Oliveira Martins

Florian Pelgrin

Marc Suhrcke

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587131.003.0007

This chapter assesses the impact of health expenditures and better health status on potential growth and productivity. It presents some ‘thought experiments’ on the indexation of active life on longevity and impact of ageing on aggregate productivity. After analysing the impact of income growth on health spending, the chapter closes the loop by investigating the likely impacts of better health and longevity on economic growth.

Keywords:   ageing, productivity, health expenditure, economic growth, aggregate productivity

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