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work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …
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, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … it is in villages and manors. Finally, a larger share of Jews is associated with lower fertility in towns, which is not …
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fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
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administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
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stay on their baseline trajectories (taken from the European Commission’s Debt Sustainability Monitor 2023) under low-fertility …, high-fertility, low-migration and high-migration scenarios. These scenarios are provided in the Commission’s Ageing Report … growth. The effects of the low-fertility scenario kick in only in the very long run and even exceed those of low migration …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in … ; redistribution ; ethnic diversity ; fertility ; human capital ; economic growth …
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human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …
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What sparked humanity’s leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified Growth Theory explores the evolution of societies over the entire course of human history. It uncovers the universal wheels of change that have governed the journey of...
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A demographic transition resulting from an increase in the size of the young working age population can be a blessing or a curse for economic performance. We focus on the political stability effects of a larger youth population and hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel...
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