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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568736
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Pharmaceutical innovation, longevity, and medical expenditure in Greece, 1995 - 2010
Lichtenberg, Frank - 2015
Longitudinal, disease-level data are used to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity (mean age at … pharmaceutical innovation increased mean age at death by 0.87 years (10.4 months) - about 44% of the total increase in longevity …
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Demographic structure and macroeconomic trends
Aksoy, Yunus; Basso, Henrique S.; Smith, Ron; Grasl, Tobias - 2016
The effect of changes in demographic structure on medium-run trends of key macroeconomic variables is estimated using a Panel VAR of 21 OECD economies. The panel data variability assists the identification of direct effects of demographics, while the dynamic structure uncovers long-term effects....
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The economic impact of demographic structure in OECD countries
Aksoy, Yunus; Grasl, Tobias; Smith, Ron - 2012
We examine the impact of demographic structure, the proportion of the population in each age group, on growth, savings, investment, hours, interest rates and inflation using a panel VAR estimated from data for 20 OECD economies, mainly for the period 1970-2007. This flexible dynamic structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630625
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The impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical expenditure in Sweden, 1997-2010 : evidence from longitudinal, disease-level data
Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Pettersson, Billie - 2012
We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … estimated to have increased mean age at death by 0.60 years during the period. The estimates indicate that longevity depends on … utilization in Sweden, so the cost per life-year gained from the introduction of new drugs was quite low. -- longevity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571756
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Longevity shocks with age-dependent productivity growth
Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2015
The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528342
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the mortality decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2017 - This version: August 3, 2017
We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, in 1884. Employing a multi-layered empirical setup, we draw on international comparisons and difference-indifferences strategies using...
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Demographic change and climate change
Rauscher, Michael - 2019
time to study the link between longevity and global warming. It is seen that increasing longevity accelerates climate … implemented via a cap-and-trade system, the price of emission permits is increasing in longevity. Longevity has no effect on the …, the impact of longevity is ambiguous. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026344
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The "red herring" after 20 years : ageing and health care expenditures
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - 2019
20 years ago, Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999) established the by now famous "red-herring" hypothesis, according to which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed positive correlation between age and health care expenditures...
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