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Friday the 13th : the empirics of bad luck

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2014

We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...

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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

, we find that long-term demographic changes in the educational attainment of the native (West-)German population - in …

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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019

Rösel, Felix - 2022

I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …

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Family planning and climate change

Gerlagh, Reyer; Lupi, Veronica; Galeotti, Marzio - 2018

three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate … the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …

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The impact of immigration on wage dynamics : evidence from the Algerian independence war

Edo, Anthony - 2017

This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of...

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Projecting the spread of COVID19 for Germany

Donsimoni, Jean Roch; Glawion, René; Plachter, Bodo; … - 2020

We model the evolution of the number of individuals that are reported to be sick with COVID-19 in Germany. Our theoretical framework builds on a continuous time Markov chain with four states: healthy without infection, sick, healthy after recovery or after infection but without symptoms and...

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Migration-regime liberalization and social security : political-economy effect

Razin, Asaf; Sand, Edith - 2009

The pay-as-you-go social security system, which suffers from dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants with birth rates that exceed the native-born birth rates in the host country. Thus, a social security system provides effectively an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper...

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Does size matter? : the impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends...

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Ageing and the welfare state : securing sustainability

Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - 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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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....

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