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Demographic Change and Public Sector Budgets in a Federal System
Hofmann, Michael; Kempkes, Gerhard; Seitz, Helmut - CESifo - 2008
This paper examines the effects of demographic change on public finances in a federal system. We develop a simple methodical procedure to measure the effect of demographic changes on public revenues and expenditures. We apply our method to the local, state and federal government sector as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013041
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Ageing and Productivity Growth: Are there Macro-level Cohort Effects of Human Capital?
Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406417
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Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England
Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - CESifo - 2012
We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on family-level data, we find a causal, negative short-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575441
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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What Do Immigrants Value Most About Switzerland? Evidence of the Relative Importance of Income Taxes
Morger, Mario - CESifo - 2013
indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877741
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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - CESifo - 2012
distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877921
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Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - CESifo - 2009
This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533995
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Income Taxes, Property Values, and Migration
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2003
locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a … are mobile, a tax on them induces little migration because the tax will reduce the rents on land inhabited by the rich. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406374
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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation
Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671737
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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - CESifo - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185619