Economic convergence in ageing Europe

Kashnitsky, Ilya; Beer, Joop de; Wissen, Leo van

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“…At first glance, they look surprisingly alike, and there seems to be very little change between the lines over time. This is an artifact driven by the systematic differences in the timing of Demographic Transition between the three parts of Europe (Kashnitsky et al, 2020). As in the case of the analysis of convergence in ageing for all European NUTS-2 regions above (Figure 4), the differences between Eastern, Southern and Western Europe are masking the differences that exist between the urbanized and less urbanized regions.…”

Section: Convergence or Divergence In Population Structures?mentioning

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“…A glance at the empirical cumulative densities of the share of the working age population for the three parts of Europe (Figure 4) tells the story of the ending phase of the demographic dividend in Eastern Europe (Van Der Gaag and De Beer, 2015;Kashnitsky et al, 2020). The median values for this group of regions are much higher throughout the study period.…”

Section: Convergence or Divergence In Population Structures?mentioning

confidence: 93%

“…To account for the possible differences between Eastern, Southern and Western Europe, we also did the similar smoothing separately for each of the three parts of Europe ( Figure 3). Following the logic of our previous research (Kashnitsky et al, 2020), we divide European NUTS-2 regions not in four parts -as is done by the official (EuroVoc, 2017) classification of Eurostat -but in three parts: Eastern, Southern, and Western. We chose not to distinguish Northern Europe as a separate part because of its relatively small size (just 22 NUTS-2 regions) and considerable inner heterogeneity: the Nordic regions were merged with Western Europe, the Baltic regions were classified as Eastern Europe with which they have much more in common in terms of the analyzed variables.…”

Section: Is There Urbanization At the Nuts-2 Regional Level?mentioning

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Unequally ageing regions of Europe: Exploring the role of urbanization

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Publication: Population Studies, forthcoming.Since young adults tend to move from rural to urban regions whereas older adults move from urban to rural regions, one may expect that differences in population ageing across urban and rural regions have increased. This paper examines whether differences in population ageing across urban and rural NUTS-2 regions of the EU-27 over the period 2003-2013 have diverged. We use the methodological approach of convergence analysis, quite recently brought to demography from the field of economic research.Unlike classical beta and sigma approaches to convergence, we focus not on any single summary statistic of convergence, but rather analyze the whole cumulative distribution of regions. Such an approach helps to identify which specific group of regions is responsible for the major changes. Our results suggest that, despite the expectations, there was no divergence in age structures between urban and rural regions, rather divergence happened within each of the groups of regions.regional cohesion | population ageing | convergence in ageing | urbanization | NEU-JOBS urban-rural classification | NUTS-2 https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hj28v Urbanization and regional difference in ageing in Europe | June 2, 2020 | 1-13

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Section: Convergence or Divergence In Population Structures?mentioning

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Section: Convergence or Divergence In Population Structures?mentioning

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“…It quite possible that at the regional level the age structure may play a role. Kashnitsky et al (2020) examined age convergence using regional EU level data. They found a strong relation between age and economic convergence.…”

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Decomposition of regional convergence in population aging across Europe

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In the face of rapidly aging population, decreasing regional inequalities in population composition is one of the regional cohesion goals of the European Union. To our knowledge, no explicit quantification of the changes in regional population aging differentiation exist. We investigate how regional differences in population aging developed over the last decade and how they are likely to evolve in the coming three decades, and we examine how demographic components of population growth contribute to the process. We use the beta-convergence approach to test whether regions are moving towards a common level of population aging. The change in population composition is decomposed into the separate effects of changes in the size of the non-working-age population and of the working-age population. The latter changes are further decomposed into the effects of cohort turnover, migration at working ages, and mortality at working ages. European Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)-2 regions experienced notable convergence in population aging during the period 2003–2012 and are expected to experience further convergence in the coming three decades. Convergence in aging mainly depends on changes in the population structure of East-European regions. Cohort turnover plays the major role in promoting convergence. Differences in mortality at working ages, though quite moderate themselves, have a significant cumulative effect. The projections show that when it is assumed that net migration flows at working ages are converging across European regions, this will not contribute to convergence of population aging. The beta-convergence approach proves useful to examine regional variations in population aging across Europe.

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Economic convergence in ageing Europe

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Decomposition of regional convergence in population aging across Europe

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