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Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents

Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … strongly influences the time spent by both spouses with their children in 2002, but not in 1988. Fathers were much more …

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What old stagers could teach us: Examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and increase regional disparities. The age-creativity link is however far from clear at the aggregate level. Contributing to this debate, we estimate the causal effect of the workforce...

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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation: Is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?

Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...

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Aging and urban house prices

Hiller, Norbert; Lerbs, Oliver W. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

This paper investigates the long-run relationships between the size and age composition of a city's population and the price of local housing. For estimation purposes, we combine city-level demographic information with housing price data for 87 cities in Germany over the period 1995-2012....

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Age and productivity: Sector differences?

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

In most industrialised countries, the workforce is ageing rapidly. If ageing workforces affect sectors differently, the total impact of ageing will depend on the industrial structure of an economy. This paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity...

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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...

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Are Wages in Southern Europe more Flexible? The Effects of a Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

We exploit the cross?country and time variation in the demographics and education structure of 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size has a negative and statistically significant effect...

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15 years of pension reform in Germany: old successes and new threats

Bonin, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

The paper surveys the state of German pension system after a sequence of reforms aimed at achieving long-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a defined contribution scheme, and that this move has...

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Age and productivity: evidence from linked employer employee data

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...

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