Demographic Change and Consumption – How Ageing Affects the Level and Structure of Private Consumption.

Stöver, B. & Wolter, M. I. (2015): Demographic Change and Consumption – How Ageing Affects the Level and Structure of Private Consumption. In: Meade, D.S. (ed.): In Quest of the Craft – Economic Modeling for the 21st Century, Firenze University Press, pp. 195–209. DOI: 10.1400/234111.

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Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf die Branchen in Deutschland und potenzielle Rückwirkungen auf Hamburg

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Britta Stöver
Marc Ingo Wolter

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2015

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