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Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce

Bärnighausen, Till - 2009

Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages...

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Global Demographic Change : Dimensions and Economic Significance

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David - 2021

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large baby boom cohorts enter the workforce and save for retirement, while rising longevity has perhaps increased both the incentive to invest in education and to save for retirement....

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Demographic Transitions and Economic Miracles in Emerging Asia

Bloom, David E.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

Asia during this century than in any other region or historical period. By introducing demographic variables into an … empirical model of economic growth, this essay shows that this transition has contributed substantially to East Asia's so …-called economic miracle. The 'miracle' occurred in part because East Asia's demographic transition resulted in its working …

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Labor and the Emerging World Economy

Bloom, David E.; Brender, Adi - 2021

This paper explores the emergence of a world economy since 1950 and its implications for the world's labor force. There …, the world economy is still in its adolescence. Rapid integration has occurred among the industrial economies, but … the industrial economies, but not in world income inequality as the income gap between the industrial and developing …

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Is an Integrated Regional Labor Market Emergin in East and Southeast Asia?

Bloom, David E.; Noor, Waseen - 2021

We examine labor market integration in east and southeast Asia (ESEA) during the 1980s, focusing on intraregional labor …

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Modern Infectious Diseases : Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses

Bloom, David E. - 2020

We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...

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Disease and Development Revisited

Bloom, David E. - 2009

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20th century may have lowered income levels. We argue that this result depends crucially on their assumption that initial health and income do not affect subsequent economic...

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Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

Bloom, David E. - 2010

We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor force participation. The direct effect is concentrated among...

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Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings

Bloom, David E. - 2010

In theory, improvements in healthy life expectancy should generate increases in the average age of retirement, with little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent retirement ages from keeping pace with changes in life...

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Does the Aids Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?

Bloom, David E.; Mahal, Ajay S. - 2021

This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the association, across fifty-one developing and industrial countries for which we were able to assemble data, between changes in the prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of...

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