{"id":17709,"date":"2025-10-23T13:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=17709"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:44:39","slug":"the-macroeconomic-impact-of-ageing-eu-immigration-policy-and-pension-expenditures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-macroeconomic-impact-of-ageing-eu-immigration-policy-and-pension-expenditures\/","title":{"rendered":"The macroeconomic impact of ageing, EU immigration policy and pension expenditures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruegel.org\/people\/david-pinkus\"><br>David Pinkus<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruegel.org\/people\/jacob-funk-kirkegaard\">Jacob Funk Kirkegaard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Union population is ageing increasingly rapidly, with dependency ratios\u00a0and shares of the elderly in the total population rising across the continent. While\u00a0aggregate projected increases in age-related public spending in the EU are manageable,\u00a0there are substantial differences between EU countries. A low probability of a sustained\u00a0rebound in fertility rates effectively leaves the EU with continuingly high positive\u00a0net-migration levels as the only route to mitigate the economic effects of ageing. EU\u00a0potential growth rates are set to fall, driven down by shrinking labour forces and\u00a0likely slowing total factor productivity, adding to the fiscal challenges from an ageing\u00a0population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: www.bruegel.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruegel.org\/working-paper\/macroeconomic-impact-ageing-eu-immigration-policy-and-pension-expenditures\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pinkus\u00a0Jacob Funk Kirkegaard The European Union population is ageing increasingly rapidly, with dependency ratios\u00a0and shares of the elderly in the total population rising across the continent. While\u00a0aggregate projected increases in age-related public spending in the EU are manageable,\u00a0there are substantial differences between EU countries. A low probability of a sustained\u00a0rebound in fertility rates effectively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-32","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17710,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions\/17710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}