Precautionary public health, ageing and urban agglomeration

Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science - Tập 1 - Trang 655-669 - 2017
Tohru Naito1, Daisuke Ikazaki2, Tatsuya Omori3
1Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
2Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan
3Chukyo University, Aichi, Japan

Tóm tắt

Introducing precautionary public health policy into an overlapping generations model with migration of households between regions, we discuss the causality between ageing and urban agglomeration. We analyze the effect of public policy to expand longevity on an equilibrium population distribution between an urban region and a rural region in a steady state. As the result of our analysis, it is possible that the promotion of precautionary public health policy leads to enlarge wage differentials and enlarge regional disparity.

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