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We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...
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, we find that long-term demographic changes in the educational attainment of the native (West-)German population – in …
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I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …
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three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate … the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...
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projection parameters, school improvements falling within currently observed performance levels yield very large gains. The …
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change or globalization, but also by the dynamics of factor taxation, automation capital (robots), and population growth …
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Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The …
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world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log … implications for the design of policies aimed at containing population growth. …
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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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