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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis T.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
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Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen; Zhou, Shaojie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836667
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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960118
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Determinants of South African Women’s Labour Force Participation, 1995-2004
Ntuli, Miracle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
A striking feature of labour supply in South Africa is the phenomenal expansion in the labour force participation of women from 38 percent in 1995 to 46 percent in 2004. Even so, their participation has been persistently lower than that of men whose participation rates were 58 percent and 62...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822348
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The Power of the Little Blue Pill: Innovations and Implications of Life Style Drugs in an Aging Population
LaRiviere, Jacob; Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The launch of Viagra in April 1998 led to a historically unprecedented high usage of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs. We test whether Viagra's introduction significantly influenced outcomes for its target population such as STD rates of older men, as well as its non-target populations, such as...
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Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan
Kobayashi, Miki; Usui, Emiko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan … breastfeeding practices in Japan. …
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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data and the exogenous variation generated by the 2006 revision of the Japanese Elderly Employment...
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan's Lost Decade
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …
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Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?
Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru; Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...
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