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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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fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
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This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015....
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work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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experiments and quasi-experiments in low fertility contexts, including studies from Europe, Northern America, Oceania and Asia …This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on evidence from … insurance, and financial incentives such as child transfers. Childcare expansions increase completed fertility. Financial …
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significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market. …
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the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns …, 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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The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account. We build a model of a closed economy inhabited by...
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interests of the different groups are only partly coinciding. For a given demography and interest rate, the joint result of the … in the capital market with a corresponding equilibrium interest rate. In this paper we assume a demography with one … determined by the demography and cannot be modified at will as a long-term political instrument. We find that this is relevant …
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