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Demography, capital accumulation and growth
Stehrer, Robert; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2022
Europe will be challenged by demographic changes over the next few decades, even under favourable assumptions about fertility and migration, but the economic effects are not yet fully understood. This paper studies the effects of population ageing on economic growth, capital deepening and...
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To what extent can urbanisation mitigate the negative impact of population ageing in China?
García Herrero, Alicia; Xu, Jianwei - 2023
into account the impact of population aging on labour productivity. China’s fast move towards robotisation and artificial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466599
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
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Health and Work at Older Ages : Using Mortality to Assess the Capacity to Work Across Countries
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2013
Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090626
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Health and Work at Older Ages : Using Mortality to Assess the Capacity to Work across Countries
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2012
Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460431
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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911691
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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480613
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Patterns of work across the OECD
Faggio, Guilia (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003340946
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Employment and taxes
Nickell, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002050401
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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan
Campante, Filipe R. - 2013
We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...
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