Search Results - subject:"Low Fertility"

How does education change the relationship between fertility and age-dependency under environmental constraints? A long-term simulation exercise

Striessnig, Erich; Lutz, Wolfgang - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 16, pp. 465-492

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Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries

García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

role of the State in the provision of care services is marginal. Very low fertility poses challenges for economic growth … countries managed to sustain near-replacement fertility rates or to recover from very low fertility, while others fell and still … low fertility countries need to cross before being able to enter a phase of fertility recovery. …

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Economic Implications of China's Demographics in the 21st Century

Cheng, Kevin C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

mobility is high in China, a low fertility rate implies more future capital outflows. But if capital is less mobile, low … fertility today lowers the domestic return to capital and raises the domestic return to labor. In addition, the paper finds no …

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Future fertility in low fertility countries

Basten, Stuart; Sobotka, Tomá; Zeman, Krytof - 2013

This paper discusses results of the global survey of experts on the future of low fertility in low-fertility countries … changes in major low-fertility regions. Next we outline main theoretical arguments and review a wide range of factors … contributing to fertility change and variation in contemporary low-fertility settings. Subsequently, we present survey results …

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Future fertility in low fertility countries

Basten, Stuart; Sobotka, Tomáš; Zeman, Kryštof - 2013

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Does Housing Cost Affect Birth Rates in Taiwan? The ADL Test for Threshold Co-integration

Chen, Wen-Yi - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2013) 3, pp. 90-103

This study applied the ADL threshold co-integration model to investigate the relationship between fertility and housing cost in Taiwan. Our empirical results were in favor of the threshold co-integration relationship between crude birth rate and cost of childbearing, such as housing cost and...

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Family policies in the context of low fertility and social structure

Fent, Thomas; Diaz, Belinda Aparicio; Prskawetz, Alexia - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 37, pp. 963-998

In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of family policies in the context of the structure of a society. We use an agent-based model to analyse the impact of policies on individual fertility decisions and on fertility at the aggregate level. The crucial features of our model are the...

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Ageing and its determinants : potentialities and challenges for employment in Southern Europe

Impicciatore, Roberto; Semenza, Renata - In: International journal of work innovation : IJWI 2 (2017) 2/3, pp. 121-142

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High development and fertility: fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link

Myrskylä, Mikko; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Billari, Francesco C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the...

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The Demographic Dividend; Evidence From the Indian States

Mody, Ashoka; Aiyar, Shekhar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Large cohorts of young adults are poised to add to the working-age population of developing economies. Despite much interest in the consequent growth dividend, the size and circumstances of the potential gains remain under-explored. This study makes progress by focusing on India, which will be...

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