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Migration and Aging

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Population aging presents a looming challenge for sustaining intergenerational transfers from the economically productive population to dependent elderly. This chapter offers an interdisciplinary perspective on whether immigration may alleviate this economic challenge for an aging welfare state. Specifically, it demonstrates how immigration may be beneficial from a pure demographic perspective, but less so or costly from an economic perspective.

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Responsible Section Editor: Klaus F. Zimmermann

The chapter has benefited from valuable comments of the editors, and anonymous referees. Financial support by European Unions Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under grant agreement No 870661 and No 101004535, and the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life, and Welfare (FORTE) for the Migrant Trajectories research program under grant number 2016-07105 are gratefully noted. There is no conflict of interest. The chapter was the basis for an invited lecture at the 2021 “Human Resources Challenges” Virtual Workshop of the Academia Europaea Section “Economics, Business and Management Sciences”

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Qi, H., Bevelander, P. (2022). Migration and Aging. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_100-1

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