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We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970-2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature our results suggest that...
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and growth, whose simulations match our empirical findings. The current trend of population aging and reduced fertility is …
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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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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …
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Over the next four decades, increasing old-age dependency ratios exert an enormous upward pressure on welfare spending in most developed countries. As this is mainly due to existing unfunded public pension schemes, many countries have embarked on far-reaching reforms in this area, strengthening...
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change and population aging. Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and how population aging …. Aging is equivalent to an increase in the old-age dependency ratio of an OLG-economy with two-period lived individuals. In … this framework aging increases the relative scarcity of labor with respect to capital. Therefore, there will be more labor …
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