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Global demographic change and climate policies
Gerlagh, Reyer; Jaimes, Richard; Motavasseli, Ali - 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 migration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
unemployment, low wages, and high population growth. Migration flows decrease in the geographic and cultural distance between the … alleviate challenges arising from population aging. For origin countries, the effects of migration may go either way, depending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533912
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Pension systems, ageing and the stability and growth pact
Beetsma, Roel (contributor); Oksanen, Heikki (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623944
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Collective labor supply of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2009
We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....
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Immigration, fertility, and human capital : a model of economic decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965875
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Strategic housing policy, migration and sorting around population thresholds
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2015
exogenously imposed population thresholds leading to an increased number and/or remuneration of local office-holders. Using data … population growth through policy measures aimed at stimulating net in-migration when approaching important population thresholds … election cycle to maximize population growth just before the 'deadline' to surpass a population threshold - act as a key …
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Modeling uncertainty in climate change : a multi-model comparison
Gillingham, Kenneth; Nordhaus, William D.; Anthoff, David; … - 2015
using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks at model and parametric uncertainties for population, total …
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The lifecycle of the 47%
Fullerton, Don; Rao, Nirupama - 2016
We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...
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Immigrant entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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