{"id":393931,"date":"2010-03-05T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/europes-only-hope-is-that-old-people-will-be-unexpectedly-production-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:57:00","slug":"europes-only-hope-is-that-old-people-will-become-really-really-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393931","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s Only Hope Is That Old People Will Become Really, Really Productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European economists are desperately looking for a way to dispute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/here-are-the-15-demographic-dogs-that-are-going-the-way-of-greece-2010-3\">evidence<\/a> of aging workforces and economies in decline.<\/p>\n<p>An idea offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/index.php?q=node\/4713\">Dutch professor Jan Van Ours<\/a> is that old people may be more productive than we expect.<\/p>\n<p>Sure they run slower:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b9132737f8b9add113c0100\/age-and-speed.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"age and speed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But they publish plenty of articles:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b9132c87f8b9aad084a0100\/age-and-publication.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"age and publication\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And they don&#8217;t peak in productivity until age 55 (although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/index.php?q=node\/4713\">Ours admits<\/a> that other studies differ on this):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b91300c7f8b9a3b520b0100\/age-and-productivity.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"age and productivity\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nah, we still think <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/here-are-the-15-demographic-dogs-that-are-going-the-way-of-greece-2010-3\">Europe is doomed to crisis after crisis after crisis<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/europes-only-hope-is-that-old-people-will-be-unexpectedly-production-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/even-a-perfect-cyclical-recovery-will-be-crippled-by-americas-shifting-demographics-2010-1\">How America&#8217;s Changing Demographics Will Crush Even A Perfect, Cyclical Recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/do-demographics-doom-us-to-repeat-japan-2009-7\">Do Demographics Doom Us To Repeat Japan?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-countries-on-the-verge-of-a-demographic-crisis-2010-2\">10 Countries On The Verge Of A Crippling Demographic Crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/nalgm4MJl_U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European economists are desperately looking for a way to dispute evidence of aging workforces and economies in decline. An idea offered by Dutch professor Jan Van Ours is that old people may be more productive than we expect. Sure they run slower: But they publish plenty of articles: And they don&#8217;t peak in productivity until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}