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Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2021
This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine...
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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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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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Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production Around the World
Bridgman, Benjamin - 2015
We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...
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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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Global Demographic Change and Climate Policies
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017
Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate dropped from 5 to about 2.5. We develop and calibrate an analytic climate-economy model with overlapping generations to study the effect of such demographic change on capital...
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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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Feeling the Heat : Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2014
Does temperature affect economic performance? Has temperature always affected social welfare through its impact on physical and cognitive function? While many studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e.g. agricultural yield, violent conflict, or sea-level rise), few...
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