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Après nous le Déluge: Fertility and the intensity of struggle against immigration
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
future, the host countries allocate very limited amounts of resources to the struggle against illegal immigration. The … which the intensity of the struggle against immigration can be related to fertility. The analysis shows that for childless … individuals, who have no reason to care about the future, it is optimal to contribute less to the costly immigration …
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Ageing, funded pensions and the Dutch economy
Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Knaap, Thijs - 2005
This paper attempts to paint a coherent picture of the effects of ageing on a small, open, economy with large pension funds in different institutional settings. Quantitative scenarios are projected with an applied computable general equilibrium model with institutional details. We find that...
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The Forecasting Power of the ifo Business Survey
Lehmann, Robert - 2020
The ifo Institute is Germany’s largest business survey provider, with the ifo Business Climate Germany as one of the most important leading indicators for gross domestic product. However, the ifo Business Survey is not solely limited to the Business Climate and also delivers a multitude of...
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The Forecasting Power of the Ifo Business Survey
Lehmann, Robert - 2020
The ifo Institute is Germany's largest business survey provider, with the ifo Business Climate Germany as one of the most important leading indicators for gross domestic product. However, the ifo Business Survey is not solely limited to the Business Climate and also delivers a multitude of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833732
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Social security and longevity
Andersen, Torben M. - 2005
Many countries face the problem of how to reform social security systems to cope with increasing life expectancy. This raises questions concerning both distribution and risk sharing across generations. These issues are addressed within an OLG model with stochastic life expectancy across...
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Panels with nonstationary multifactor error structures
Kapetanios, George; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Yamagata, … - 2006
Increasing longevity causes an upward trend in the dependency ratio in many countries. This raises concerns about the financial sustainability of social security schemes, and reform initiatives and proposals abound. It is shown that a fundamental policy choice inevitably arises since a given...
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Are the Elderly a Threat to Educational Expenditures?
Cattaneo, Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized countries is likely to exert a negative impact on educational spending. These papers have linked the share of the elderly with the per capita or per pupil spending on education at the local, state-wide or...
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …
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Social Assistance and Refugee Crime
Auer, Daniel; Slotwinski, Michaela; Ahrens, Achim; … - 2024
Despite intense policy debates, the relationship between social welfare and refugee crime remains understudied. Taking steps to address this gap, our study focuses on Switzerland, where mobility restrictions on exogenously assigned refugees coincide with cantons' autonomy in setting social...
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Population Aging, Retirement, and Aggregate Productivity
Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2023
Most industrialized countries today are facing historical demographic changes, paring increasing retirement with a declining labor force. We study the consequences of an increasing pensioner-worker ratio in a macroeconomic framework, which suggests a negative effect on total factor productivity....
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