Showing 1 - 10 of 263
To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996260
annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both increasing longevity and decreasing fertility should reduce the inherited … distributed if aging is driven by a drop in fertility. In comparison, the effect of increasing longevity on their distribution in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985794
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133620
through which the social security system influences voter attitudes in favor of more liberal immigration regime. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316373
of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769704
fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … model of female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771397
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel … migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992443
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119232
Economic theory predicts that adverse shocks during early childhood have detrimental short- and long-run consequences for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083878
Large and persistent earnings losses following displacement have adverse consequences for the individual worker and the macroeconomy. Leading models cannot explain their size and disagree on their sources. Two mean-reverting forces make earnings losses transitory in these models: search as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951559