Similar Search Results

Demographic aging and employment dynamics in German regions : modeling regional heterogeneity

Graaff, Thomas de; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Ozgen, Ceren - 2017

Persistence of high youth unemployment and dismal labour market outcomes are imminent concerns for most European economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even more worrying once the relationship is scrutinized at the regional level. We focus on modelling...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647469

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

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

Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442725

Population aging and economic growth : from demographic dividend to demographic drag?

Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326800

Demography of global aging

Bloom, David E.; Mitgang, Elizabeth; Osher, Benjamin - 2016

Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528113

The effect of child benefits on financial difficulties and spending habits: evidence from Poland's Family 500+ program

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021

In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and low-income, one-child families. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we explore the causal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012508568

Short-term labor supply response to the timing of transfer payments : evidence from the SNAP program

Marks, Mindy; Prina, Silvia; Tahaj, Redina - 2023

We study the effect of the timing of SNAP payments on weekly labor supply using data from the CPS. We rely on exogenous variation in the fielding of CPS interviews relative to benefit receipt to estimate labor supply of SNAP eligible individuals at the end of their SNAP benefit cycle (i.e. about...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311688

Demographic uncertainty and generational consumption risk with endogenous human capital

Emerson, Patrick M.; Knabb, Shawn D. - 2018

This paper uses a model with overlapping generations to demonstrate that human capital accumulation can potentially attenuate factor price movements in response to birth rate shocks. Specifically, we show that if education spending per child is inversely related to the size of the generation,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803190

Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, a behavioral approach

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2020

interests of the different groups are only partly coinciding. For a given demography and interest rate, the joint result of the … in the capital market with a corresponding equilibrium interest rate. In this paper we assume a demography with one … determined by the demography and cannot be modified at will as a long-term political instrument. We find that this is relevant …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160984

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last