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Marriage and consumption insurance : what s love got to do with it?
Hess, Gregory D. - 2001
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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Will social security and Medicare remain viable as the U.S. population is aging? : an update
Bohn, Henning - 2003
Yes, subject to concerns about Medicare inefficiencies and potentially self-confirming skepticism. The U.S. social security system-broadly defined to include Medicare-faces significant financial problems as the result of an aging population. But demographic change is also likely to raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511045
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Population, population density, and technological change
Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004
In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
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Financing retirement in the European Union
Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2002
This paper explores how EU countries can address various challenges (including the aging of the population) affecting their systems of old-age income support. It presents two scenarios illustrating the most important uncertainties surrounding the major developments that affect the pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408835
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Does the balance of power within a family matter? : the case of the retirement equity act
Aura, Saku - 2002
This paper studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection for surviving spouses. A change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions both from a simple Nash-bargaining model of the household and from the...
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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2015
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015
This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280834
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From local to global : external validity in a fertility natural experiment
Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Pop-Eleches, Christian; Samii, Cyrus - 2015
experiment (the effect of boy-boy or girl-girl as the first two children on incremental fertility and mothers’ labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309525
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235847
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Pensions and fertility : back to the roots ; the introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2013
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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Children of a (policy) revolution : the introduction of universal child care and its effect on fertility
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo … effects or selective migration. Our findings inform policy makers concerned about suboptimally low fertility by suggesting …
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