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Fertility Changes and Replacement Migration
Aksoy, Yunus - 2020
significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market …
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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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Prussia Disaggregated : The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … it is in villages and manors. Finally, a larger share of Jews is associated with lower fertility in towns, which is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834355
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Demographic Change and Climate Change
Rauscher, Michael - 2019
The paper uses a continuous-time overlapping-generations model with endogenous growth and pollution accumulation over time to study the link between longevity and global warming. It is seen that increasing longevity accelerates climate change in a business-as-usual scenario without climate...
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Family Planning and Climate Change
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2019
the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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Fertility Cost, Intergenerational Labor Division, and Female Employment
Yu, Haiyue - 2019
China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling labor supply caused by the aging population. However, policy debates have so far neglected the crucial fact that families in China largely rely on retired grandparents for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892279
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Fertility and Modernity
Spolaore, Enrico - 2019
We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866043
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Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a largescale correspondence test...
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Birth in Times of War - an Investigation of Health, Mortality and Social Class Using Historical Clinical Records
Geiger, Nadine - 2019
While World War II (WWII) is often employed as natural experiment to identify long-term effects of adverse early-life and prenatal conditions, little is known about the short-term effects. We estimate the short-term impact of the onset of WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872061
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Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage : Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna - 2019
Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...
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