POPULATION DEPENDENCY AND INFLATION: A STUDY OF HIGH- AND UPPER-MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES

Researchers often study whether demographic change brings about inflationary tendencies in recent years. The decrease in the population at active working age and the dependency ratio that arises because of the increasing old age show an area where there is no consensus on whether it causes an inflat...

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Main Authors: H. Kaya, Y.U.Uzun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Al-Farabi Kazakh National University 2023-03-01
Series:Хабаршысы. Экономика сериясы
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Online Access:https://be.kaznu.kz/index.php/math/article/view/2648/2221
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description Researchers often study whether demographic change brings about inflationary tendencies in recent years. The decrease in the population at active working age and the dependency ratio that arises because of the increasing old age show an area where there is no consensus on whether it causes an inflatio-nary trend. In this context, we examined the trend of the young population dependency ratio, which represents the population aging and demographic change, and the tendency of the elderly population dependency ratio to affect inflation. The study conducted on 29 Upper Middle and High Income country economies in the period covering 1980-2020 used panel cointegration, panel ARDL and panel causality analysis methods. The main findings got from the study reveal that the elderly population dependency ratio has a deflationary effect in the short term, and the young population dependency has an inflationary effect in the long term. When examining the empirical studies in the literature, findings that show that population aging often leads to a deflationary process come to the fore. In other words, the fact that the age distribution of the total population accumulated from the active working age population to the elderly population shows the existence of a negative correlation between aging and inflation
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spelling doaj.art-525d8c50a634406f88717a1289a2e9a72023-04-20T18:10:28ZengAl-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityХабаршысы. Экономика сериясы1563-03582617-71612023-03-01143131510.26577/be.2023.v143.i1.01POPULATION DEPENDENCY AND INFLATION: A STUDY OF HIGH- AND UPPER-MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIESH. Kaya0Y.U.Uzun1Bitlis Eren UniversityBitlis Eren UniversityResearchers often study whether demographic change brings about inflationary tendencies in recent years. The decrease in the population at active working age and the dependency ratio that arises because of the increasing old age show an area where there is no consensus on whether it causes an inflatio-nary trend. In this context, we examined the trend of the young population dependency ratio, which represents the population aging and demographic change, and the tendency of the elderly population dependency ratio to affect inflation. The study conducted on 29 Upper Middle and High Income country economies in the period covering 1980-2020 used panel cointegration, panel ARDL and panel causality analysis methods. The main findings got from the study reveal that the elderly population dependency ratio has a deflationary effect in the short term, and the young population dependency has an inflationary effect in the long term. When examining the empirical studies in the literature, findings that show that population aging often leads to a deflationary process come to the fore. In other words, the fact that the age distribution of the total population accumulated from the active working age population to the elderly population shows the existence of a negative correlation between aging and inflationhttps://be.kaznu.kz/index.php/math/article/view/2648/2221key words: population dependencyinflationcointgrationpanel data analysis
spellingShingle H. Kaya
Y.U.Uzun
POPULATION DEPENDENCY AND INFLATION: A STUDY OF HIGH- AND UPPER-MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
Хабаршысы. Экономика сериясы
key words: population dependency
inflation
cointgration
panel data analysis
title POPULATION DEPENDENCY AND INFLATION: A STUDY OF HIGH- AND UPPER-MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
title_full POPULATION DEPENDENCY AND INFLATION: A STUDY OF HIGH- AND UPPER-MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
title_fullStr POPULATION DEPENDENCY AND INFLATION: A STUDY OF HIGH- AND UPPER-MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
title_full_unstemmed POPULATION DEPENDENCY AND INFLATION: A STUDY OF HIGH- AND UPPER-MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
title_short POPULATION DEPENDENCY AND INFLATION: A STUDY OF HIGH- AND UPPER-MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
title_sort population dependency and inflation a study of high and upper middle income countries
topic key words: population dependency
inflation
cointgration
panel data analysis
url https://be.kaznu.kz/index.php/math/article/view/2648/2221
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