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Growth and Demography in Turkey: Economic History vs. Pro-Natalist Rhetoric
Attar, M. Aykut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper projects the effects of exogenous fertility changes in Turkey on the age structure of population and the … and the fertility rate are endogenous. The calibrated version of the model delivers three important results: First …. Third, even under an increasing rate of technological progress, a permanent upward shift in fertility levels would imply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110923
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Der Bruch der Theorie in der Praxis durch Not
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Some Remarks on Lujo Brentano's View of Labor Market Problems Lujo Brentano (1844-1931) aimed for "realism" in economics. Regarding labor market theory, two topics are of particular interest: His investigations on "Hours and Wages in Relation to Production" (Scribner's 1894) and his analysis "On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187283
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Reproductive behaviour in Pakistan: insights from the population, labour force, and migration survey 1979-80
Sathar, Zeba A.; Mohammad, Irfan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1983
This paper is in two parts. Part I is essentially a comparison with the results of the Pakistan Fertility Survey(1970 …-75) and basically a few themes have been thrown up. One is whether the 12-percent decline in fertility claimed by the PFS can … substantiated or refuted or made inconsistent with this four-in-one venture of Migration, Fertility and so forth. Part II goes into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112240
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Co-Integration Between Fertility and Human Development Indicators: Evidence from Pakistan
Abdullah, Muhammad; Chani, Muhammad Irfan; Ali, Amjad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The main focus of this paper is to investigate the long run co-integration and short run dynamics between fertility … decline and development indicators in Pakistan. Bound Testing approach (ARDL) and VECM are applied on annual time series data … that long run co-integration and short run dynamics exist between total fertility rate and Human Development Indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112456
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The Genuine Saving Criterion and the Value of Population in an Economy with Endogenous Population Changes
Arrow, Kenneth J.; Bensoussan, Alain; Feng, Qi; Sethi, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We study an economy in which the rate of change of population depends on population policy decisions. This requires population as well as capital as state variables. By showing the algebraic relationship between the shadow price of the population and the shadow price of the per capita capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621602
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Fertility Rates and Skill Distribution in Razin and Sadka's Migration-Pension Model: A Note
Krieger, Tim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Razin and Sadka (1999) show that unskilled immigration is beneficial to all income and all age groups in society, even if immigrants are net beneficiaries of the welfare system. Among other things, this result rests on the assumptions that immigrants have the same reproduction rate as the native...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121212
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Child Allowances, Educational Subsidies and Economic Growth
Chen, Hung-Ju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the effects on economic growth attributable to government policies of child allowances and educational subsidies. We show that multiple steady states may arise under these two policies, with club convergence occurring, and the initial condition being of relevance, if the tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260054
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Fertility treatments and the use of twin births as an instrument for fertility
Braakmann, Nils; Wildman, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260898
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Declining Fertility in Europe – An Economic Appraisal
Honekamp, Ivonne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of an ageing population is to re-verse the demographic development by increasing the fertility rate. This is the subject … most se-verely affected by low fertility. Furthermore, different theoretical approaches are described which attempt to … affect fertility and that those findings are not always in line with economic theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020503
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The effect of job displacement on couples' fertility decisions
Huttunen, Kristiina; Kellokumpu, Jenni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results … show that woman’s own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651384