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Prioritarianism in Education
Ooghe, Erwin - 2021
on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …
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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC : Linking Education Policies to Productivity
Égert, Balázs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …
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Should Pensions Be Progressive? Yes, at Least In Germany!
Fehr, Hans - 2011
Recent reforms that aim at reducing the upcoming burdens of population aging might seriously harm low income individuals. An increase in old-age poverty and disability will be the result. Under this prospect, the present paper quantitatively characterizes the optimal progressivity of unfunded...
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Aging and Health Care Expenditures : A Non-Parametric Approach
Lorenz, Normann - 2020
One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the population in most OECD countries will place an additional burden on the tax payers who finance public health care systems. Proponents of the "red-herring hypothesis" argue that...
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Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in Aging Populations
Comertpay, Rana - 2019
This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...
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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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The 'Red Herring' after 20 Years : Ageing and Health Care Expenditures
Breyer, Friedrich - 2019
20 years ago, Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999) established the by now famous "red-herring" hypothesis, according to which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed positive correlation between age and health care expenditures...
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Automation, Growth, and Factor Shares in the Era of Population Aging
Irmen, Andreas - 2021
How does population aging affect economic growth and factor shares in times of increasingly automatable production processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform tasks to produce output. Tasks require labor and...
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Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Aging
Grossmann, Volker; Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger - 2021
We discuss public pension systems in a multi-period overlapping generations model with gerontologically founded human aging and a special focus on occupation-specific morbidity and mortality. We examine how distinct replacement rates for white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement...
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Population Aging and Migration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
on whether increased incentives to invest in education are sufficient to compensate the loss of skilled workers …
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