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dividend2 CONSTRUCTSDividend (payout)LINTNER · PROFIT PAYOUTDemographic dividendBLOOM · WORKING-AGE BOOST

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Corporate finance

A payout of profits to shareholders

In corporate finance, a dividend is a distribution of a company's earnings paid out to its shareholders, usually in cash and usually stated per share held. Lintner's 1956 Distribution of incomes of corporations among dividends, retained earnings, and taxes studied how firms actually set these payments, finding that managers adjust them slowly toward a target payout rather than moving them with each year's profit. Miller and Modigliani's 1961 Dividend policy, growth, and the valuation of shares then argued that, in idealised markets, a firm's choice of dividend policy does not change its value. The referent is money moving from a firm to its owners, counted per share, not a number inside a calculation or a growth effect from a population's age structure.[1][2]

Unit
A cash payment per share, or the total payout summed across all shares
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Reported as dividend per share, dividend yield, or the payout ratio against earnings

Demographic economics

Growth from a favorable age structure

In demographic economics, the demographic dividend is the boost to economic growth that can occur when a falling birth rate temporarily raises the share of a population that is of working age relative to the young and old who depend on it. Bloom and Williamson's 1998 Demographic transitions and economic miracles in emerging Asia introduced this idea, showing that a swelling working-age cohort helped drive rapid East Asian growth. Bloom, Canning, and Sevilla's 2003 The Demographic Dividend named and developed the concept as a window of opportunity that only pays off under supporting policy. The referent is a growth effect across a whole population over decades, not a company payment or a term in arithmetic.[3][4]

Unit
A growth effect for a whole population over a demographic transition
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Estimated from the working-age share of the population and its contribution to growth in output per person

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References

  1. Lintner, J. (1956). Distribution of incomes of corporations among dividends, retained earnings, and taxes. The American Economic Review, 46(2), 97–113.
  2. Miller, M. H., & Modigliani, F. (1961). Dividend policy, growth, and the valuation of shares. The Journal of Business, 34(4), 411–433. https://doi.org/10.1086/294442
  3. Bloom, D. E., & Williamson, J. G. (1998). Demographic transitions and economic miracles in emerging Asia. The World Bank Economic Review, 12(3), 419–455. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/12.3.419
  4. Bloom, D. E., Canning, D., & Sevilla, J. (2003). The demographic dividend: A new perspective on the economic consequences of population change. RAND Corporation. https://doi.org/10.7249/mr1274

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