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Employment structures in China from 1990 to 2015: demographic and technological change
Ge, Peng; Sun, Wenkai; Zhao, Zhong - 2021
Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important … employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; both the …
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The effects of FDI liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change : evidence from China
Erten, Bilge; Leight, Jessica; Zhu, Lianming - 2023
How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI...
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Women's education and fertility in China
Zhang, Zheyuan; Zhao, Zhong - 2023
Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented … in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499179
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China's 40 years demographic dividend and labor supply : the quantity myth
Meng, Xin - 2023
China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the … contributions of various dimensions of China's changing WAPS and its impact on economic growth. I show that between 1982-2015 the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287017
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No room to live : urban overcrowding in Edwardian Britain
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009
We study the extent of overcrowding amongst British urban working families in the early 1900s and find major regional differences. In particular, a much greater proportion of households in urban Scotland were overcrowded than in the rest of Britain and Ireland. We investigate the causes of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860382
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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900319
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HIV and fertility in Africa : first evidence from population based surveys
Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - 2009
The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902438
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The income of the Swedish baby boomers
Flood, Lennart (contributor); Klevmarken, Anders (contributor) - 2006
This paper studies the income of Swedish households belonging to the baby boom generation, i.e. those born in the 1940-50. An international comparison as well as an historical presentation of income patterns is given. However, the main purpose is to generate the future income of the baby boom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003477387
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The American high school graduation rate : trends and levels
Heckman, James J. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper uses multiple data sources and a unified methodology to estimate the trends and levels of the U.S. high school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous calculations, we establish that (a) the true high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666461
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On the dynamics of ethnic fractionalization
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. (contributor) - 2007
Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with fractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989 to 2002. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597340