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Demographic change and regional labour markets
Böhm, Michael; Gregory, Terry; Qendrai, Pamela; … - 2020
Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial …-causal supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes, drawing on the identification strategy of Böhm and Siegel (2020 … age rises. A decomposition of the heterogeneous regional trends using our estimates shows that ageing of rural regions is …
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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125
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Effects of low-skilled immigration on U.S. natives : evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor); Yuksel, Mutlu (contributor) - 2008
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754906
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City beautiful
Carlino, Gerald A. (contributor); Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2008
The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression. Today, new urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769597
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Downloading wisdom from online crowds
Saiz, Albert (contributor); Simonsohn, Uri (contributor) - 2008
The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771906
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Legal default rules : the case of wrongful discharge laws
MacLeod, William Bentley (contributor);  … - 2006
One of the most vexing public policy issues is the extent to which governments should intervene into private contractual relationships. The purpose of this paper is to explore both theoretically and empirically the extent to which such interventions may enhance efficiency. In the case of...
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Age at marriage and marital instability : revisiting the Becker-Landes-Michael hypothesis
Lehrer, Evelyn L. (contributor) - 2006
An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as unmarried women begin to hear their biological clock tick,...
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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Chen, Lan; … - 2009
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
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The impact of demographic change on human capital accumulation
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847074
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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009
This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital stability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900751