When the baby boom grows old : impacts on Canada's public sector / by Brian B. Murphy and Michael C. Wolfson.: CS11-0019/38E-PDF
"Canada, like many other countries, is experiencing a significant aging of its population. This trend is expected to increase the "burden" on the public sector of major cash transfer and in-kind benefit programmes. The estimated size of the burden depends on projections of demographic change, economic growth, and structural aspects of the major age-sensitive public-sector programmes. The burdens ar eanalysed for 2016 and 2036, the period when demographic aging may be expected to have its most adverse impacts on old-age dependency ratios and public-sector programme costs. Contrary to many of the popularly expressed concerns, demographic aging is not the most important factor in determining future public-sector costs and revenues. Rather, aspects of the design and management of public-sector programmes represent the greatest area of uncertainty. These areas are more amenable to public policy initiatives and gradual adjustments within the half century time-frame of the projections.."--Abstract.
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| Department/Agency | Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch. |
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| Meeting name | Seminar on Demographic and Economic Consequences & Implications of Changing Population Age Structure(1990 :Ottawa, Ont.) |
| Title | When the baby boom grows old : impacts on Canada's public sector / by Brian B. Murphy and Michael C. Wolfson. |
| Series title | Research paper series ; no. 38 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Le vieillissement de la génération du baby boom : effets sur le secteur public du Canada. Digitized edition from print [produced by Statistics Canada]. "A paper presented to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Seminar on Demographic and Economic Consequences and Implications of Changing Population Age Structure, Ottawa, Canada, 24-28 September 1990." Includes bibliographic references. |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Social and Economic Studies Division, Analytical Studies Branch, Statistics Canada, 1991. |
| Author / Contributor | Wolfson, Michael C., 1947- |
| Description | 21 p. |
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| Subject terms | Public sector Population distribution |
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