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Ageing and productivity growth: are there macro-level cohort effects of human capital?
Werding, Martin - 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...
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Impacts of an ageing society on macroeconomics and income inequality : the case of Germany since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
The discussion paper is concerned with the interplay between demography and macroeconomics on one hand and macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681277
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Testing the Tunnel Effect : Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2013
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of...
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Extending the empirical basis for wealth inequality research using statistical matching of administrative and survey data
Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2011
. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this … picture of the level and the socio-economic structure of wealth in Germany. Above and beyond such within-country variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826700
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The political economy of public investment when population is aging : a panel cointegration analysis
Jäger, Philipp; Schmidt, Torsten - 2015
Time preferences vary by age. Notably, according to experimental studies, senior citizens tend to discount future payoffs more heavily than working-age individuals. Based on these findings, we hypothesize that demographic change has contributed to the cut-back in government-financed investment...
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Institutional Responses to Aging Populations and Economic Growth : A Panel Data Approach
Emerson, Patrick M. - 2019
Will an aging population lower economic growth? Economists are generally concerned that the increase in life expectancy could lower economic growth, however, theory does not make a prediction. As life expectancy increases, so should household savings, which results in more physical capital per...
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Young and old competing for public welfare services
Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2008
Generational conflict affects the supply of public welfare services, and the rising share of elderly is seen as a threat to educational spending. We offer an analysis of spending in child care, primary and lower secondary education, and care for the elderly related to the size of young and old...
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Exemplarische Integration raumrelevanter Indikatoren auf Basis von "Fernerkundungsdaten“ in das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP)
Goebel, Jan; Wagner, Gert G.; Wurm, Michael - 2010
Der Beitrag zeigt räumliche Auswertungsmethoden durch die Einbindung von raumrelevanten Indikatoren aus Fernerkundungsdaten in die Daten der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) auf Basis von Geo- Koordinaten. Durch die Verortung von Privathaushalten (ohne Darstellung der...
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Benford's Law as an instrument for fraud detection in surveys using the data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter - 2010
This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...
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Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP
Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010
Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …
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