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Do Labor Market Institutions Influcence Suicide Mortality? An International Panel Data Analysis
Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2021
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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Sectoral value added prices, TFP growth, and the low-skilled wage in high-income countries
Lücke, Matthias - 1999
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Demographic Structure and Macroeconomic Trends
Aksoy, Yunus; Basso, Henrique S.; Smith, Ron; Grasl, Tobias - 2021
and growth, whose simulations match our empirical findings. The current trend of population aging and reduced fertility is …
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Ageing and Productivity Growth : Are There Macro-Level Cohort Effects of Human Capital?
Werding, Martin - 2021
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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Whodunnit? : Changes in the relative demand for unskilled and skilled labor
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 1999
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Unemployment in an Interdependent World
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2010
We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …
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Ageing and the Welfare State : Securing Sustainability
Meier, Volker - 2010
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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Population Aging and the Direction of Technical Change
Irmen, Andreas - 2010
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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On the exchange rate between the Deutsche Mark and the Swiss Franc : an empirical investigation
Fürstenberg, Reinhard - 1982
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Second thoughts on development accounting
Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Woessmann, Ludger - 1998
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