Impacts of Elderly Population on the Technical Efficiency of Asean

Impacts of Elderly Population on the Technical Efficiency of Asean | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Impacts of Elderly Population on the Technical Efficiency of Asean KOUK HIONG JEE, Rossazana AB Rahim, fatin nur hidayah Taib Khan This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3628704/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract As labor oriented economies, ASEAN not only consistently suffer a subpar performance in terms of productivity growth compare to other countries in Asia since 1987 but also facing elderly population problem which closely related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 8). Hence, this study investigates the impacts of elderly population on the technical efficiency of ASEAN over the period of 1990–2019. The estimated technical efficiency for ASEAN collectively reached 0.7398 with Myanmar in highest and Lao PDR in lowest position. Besides, elderly population was proven negatively and significantly influences the technical efficiency of ASEAN. In depth, 1% increment in elderly population will decrease 3.4% of the estimated technical efficiency of ASEAN. Surprisingly, crude death rate is significantly and positively influences the technical efficiency of ASEAN. It depicted that the growth of population may not able to be transformed as the skilled workers in ASEAN. While labor force participation of the elderly is a current trend in ASEAN, the member states of ASEAN particularly Brunei and Myanmar are suggested to carry out more policies such as providing more ICT skill training and job reallocation based on physical ability to improve the productivity among the elderly labor. SDG8 technical efficiency ASEAN elderly population Full Text Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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