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Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528105
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Stock market returns and consumption
Di Maggio, Marco; Kermani, Amir; Majlesi, Kaveh - 2018
stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital gains and dividend payments with past portfolio weights. Unrealized … a flat 5 percent for the rest of the distribution. Households' consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803183
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287017
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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries
Callan, Tim (contributor); Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2008
provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726795
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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777922
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Rent-sharing and the cyclicality of wage differentials
Du Caju, Philip (contributor); Rycx, François (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778859
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Are young and old workers harmful for firm productivity?
Lallemand, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2009
This paper investigates the effects of the workforce age structure on the productivity of large Belgian firms. More precisely, it examines different scenarios of changes in the proportion of young (16-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and old (more than 49 years) workers and their expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794101
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Are short-lived jobs stepping stones to long-lasting jobs?
Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2009
This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809712
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Industry wage differentials, unobserved ability, and rent-sharing : evidence from matched worker-firm data, 1995 - 2002
Plasman, Robert (contributor); Rycx, François (contributor) - 2006
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481973
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The distributional impact of in kind public benefits in European countries
Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2009
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920201