Regional Variation in the Association Between the Changes of the Old-Age and Low-Income Shares in Finland during 2000–2020
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Regional differences in ageing lead to differences in the societal challenges caused by ageing population. However, also the development of the socioeconomic composition matters. We investigated how the change of share of the 65+ years old predicted the development of the low-income share in the working-age population in Finnish regions between 2000 and 2020 and how this depended on other regional characteristics. We used full-population register-based data and growth-curve analysis. We found regional and temporal variation in the association between the changes. Other regional characteristics such as urbanicity and GDP per capita helped in explaining the regional variation, although mostly in the 2010s. The trajectories of both shares were associated with regional ‘vitality’, and in the case of the old-age share, this association seems to be partly mediated by migration. Our findings suggest that straightforward assumptions of income development based on changes in the age composition should be avoided.
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