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work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from...
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fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
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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...
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social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first …
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contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and … decrease fertility less. Finally, the effects of the social security tax on capital per worker are negative with mandatory …
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This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …
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in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …
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Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings … workers decide on their own individual savings, that the fully-funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of … pension savings are the only sources of capital supply. When capital supply equals demand from industry there is equilibrium …
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This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …
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