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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316375
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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 role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337413
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Determinants of immigrant homeownership : examining their changing role during the Great Recession and beyond
Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013
The Great Recession had significant economic effects both in the U.S. and around the world. There is evidence that homeownership rates declined during this period, though some immigrants were less severely affected compared to natives. In this paper we investigate the role of several factors in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763229
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Shrinking regions in a shrinking country : the geography of population decline in Lithuania 2001 - 2011
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Ham, Maarten van; Burneika, Donatas - 2014
Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in post-socialist East and Central European countries. While most studies focus on the population decline of capital cities and their regions, much less is known about the spatial dimension of population decline on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257596
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Population decline in Lithuania : who lives in declining regions and who leaves?
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy makers and planners. This study aims to get more insight into the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528102
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More pensioners, less income inequality? : the impact of changing age composition on inequality in big cities and elsewhere
Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, Dave C.; Poot, Jacques - 2017
As is the case in most developed countries, the population of New Zealand is ageing numerically and structurally …. Population ageing can have important effects on the distribution of personal income within and between urban areas. The age … 1986 to 2013 by age and urban area, this paper examines the effects of population ageing on spatial-temporal changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641442
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The determination of a migration wave using ethnicity and community ties
Locher, Lilo - 2001
If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country's habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403330
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Institutionalized inequality and brain drain : an empirical study of the effects of women's rights on the gender gap in high-skilled migration
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the female high-skilled migration rates relative to that of male (the female brain drain ratio). By developing a model of migration choice I find non-linear effects of gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230041
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Female brain drains and women's rights gaps : a gravity model analysis of bilateral migration flows
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2014
In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...
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