Mathilde Esposito*, Johannes Schrön**
IBD Amphi
AMU - AMSE
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13001 Marseille
11:00am to 12:30pm
Philippine Escudié: philippine.escudie[at]univ-amu.fr
Lucie Giorgi: lucie.giorgi[at]univ-amu.fr
Kla Kouadio: kla.kouadio[at]univ-amu.fr
Lola Soubeyrand: lola.soubeyrand[at]univ-amu.fr
*In the literature on secular stagnation, demographic aging is widely blamed for lowering the IS curve of aggregate demand and therefore the natural interest rate. However, very little is said about the impact of workforce aging on long-term aggregate supply, or so-called potential GDP. To fill this gap, this study delves into the effects of workforce aging on two key components of the remarkably sluggish potential GDP growth of developed countries: hours worked and labour productivity. First, using a novel macro-accounting decomposition of EU-KLEMS data, we find that old-labour input has the highest contribution to growth, through both increased hours worked and shifts in labour composition in the EU, US and Japan. Second, we use panel stochastic frontier models highlighting that, however, old workers have an adverse effect on labour productivity growth frontier—though increasing technical efficiency, i.e., reducing the distance to this frontier.
**I use a lab-in-the-field experiment to analyse whether the framing of a payoff affects clickworker effort and proxy variables for utility in a real-effort task. I vary how a platform-dependent deduction from the payoff is presented to workers. Here, I present preliminary findings that indicate a connection between deduction salience and worker dissatisfaction.