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Bloom, David E. - 1993

This paper explores the emergence of a world economy since 1950 and its implications for the world's labor force. There …, the world economy is still in its adolescence. Rapid integration has occurred among the industrial economies, but …, international labor mobility can account for little, if any, economic integration since 1950. The economic integration that has been …

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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration

Docquier, Frédéric - 2010

In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants in a set of countries using an aggregate model of national economies. New in this literature we calculate the wage effect of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on...

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Patterns of Time Use Among Older People

Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze time use studies to describe how people allocate their time as they age, especially among paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and younger people; between developed and developing countries;...

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Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce

Bärnighausen, Till - 2009

shortages in developing countries and local shortages in developed countries led to research on international health worker …

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Disease and Development Revisited

Bloom, David E. - 2009

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20th century may have lowered income levels. We argue that this result depends crucially on their assumption that initial health and income do not affect subsequent economic...

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Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

Bloom, David E. - 2007

We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor force participation. The direct effect is concentrated among...

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Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings

Bloom, David E. - 2006

In theory, improvements in healthy life expectancy should generate increases in the average age of retirement, with little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent retirement ages from keeping pace with changes in life...

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Global Demographic Change : Dimensions and Economic Significance

Bloom, David E. - 2004

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large baby boom cohorts enter the workforce and save for retirement, while rising longevity has perhaps increased both the incentive to invest in education and to save for retirement....

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The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment

Alsan, Marcella - 2004

We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 countries over 1980 2000 to investigate whether population health affects foreign direct investment inflows. Our main finding is that health has a positive and significant effect on such inflows for low- and middle-income countries. This finding is...

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The Wealth of Nations : Fundamental Forces Versus Poverty Traps

Bloom, David E. - 2002

We test the view the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in underlying …

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