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Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Efficiency in Family Bargaining : Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2007

In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...

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Morbidity, Mortality, Health Expenditures and Annuitization

Tang, Kam Ki - 2010

In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...

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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Stevenson, Betsey - 2011

The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear...

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Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets : The Case of Eastern Germany

Henschel, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Thum, Marcel P. - 2021

Demographic change will be one of the most challenging issues for industrialized economies in the decades to come. In this paper, we focus on the impact of demographic change on labour markets. By setting up a stylized model of a regional labour market, we are able to analyze the interaction of...

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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Cooperation

Cigno, Alessandro - 2021

The paper examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. After establishing a normative framework, we examine the properties of the...

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Marriage and Consumption Insurance : What's Love Got to Do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2021

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a "hedge" (i.e., a spouse whose income is negatively correlated with her own) as it raises her...

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Pension Design when Fertility Fluctuates: The Role of Capital Mobility and Education Financing

Zamac, Jovan - CESifo - 2005

fertility. The model is a three-period CGE framework where the design of the education system and effects on factor prices are … optimal if the education system has a fixed benefit rate. This design of education and pension systems assures that … individuals in the small open economy are unaffected by fertility fluctuations. …

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Federalism, Fertility and Growth

Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2007

endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and …

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