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China’s Economic Demography Transition Strategy: A Population Weighted Approach to the Economy and Policy
Johnston, Lauren A. - 2020
The first pandemic of the 21st century has brought Pyrrhic attention to one of the era’s greatest megatrends – population ageing. Today rich countries are disproportionately affected but increasingly the world’s elderly are residents of developing countries. In rich and poor countries...
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Fertility and Population Policy
Ouedraogo, Abdoulaye; Tosun, Mehmet S.; Yang, Jingjing - 2018
There have been significant changes in both the fertility rates and fertility perception since 1970s. In this paper, we examine the relationship between government policies towards fertility and the fertility trends. Total fertility rate, defined as the number of children per woman, is used as...
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
the long-run viability of society as a whole. One possible solution is to permit more immigration, which will both … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …
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Big Data and Unemployment Analysis
Simionescu, Mihaela; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
Internet or "big" data are increasingly measuring the relevant activities of individuals, households, firms and public agents in a timely way. The information set involves large numbers of observations and embraces flexible conceptual forms and experimental settings. Therefore, internet data are...
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Return, Circular, and Onward Migration Decisions in a Knowledge Society
Constant, Amelie F. - 2019
This chapter provides a state-of-the-art literature review about research that aims to explain the return, repeat, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it...
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Longer School Schedules, Childcare and the Quality of Mothers’ Employment: Evidence from School Reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the...
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Happiness-lost: Did Governments make the right decisions to combat Covid-19?
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020
Amidst the rapid global spread of Covid-19, many governments enforced country-wide lockdowns, with likely severe well-being consequences. The actions by governments triggered a debate on whether the well-being and economic costs of a lockdown surpass the benefits perceived from a lower infection...
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Markov switching models for happiness during a pandemic: The New-Zealand experience
Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna; … - 2020
This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and provides valuable information about its future evolution....
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A tale of three countries: How did Covid-19 lockdown impact happiness?
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments have implemented lockdown regulations to curb the spread of the virus. Though lockdowns do minimise the physical damage of the virus, there may be substantial damage to population well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses...
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Big Data and Happiness
Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita - 2020
The pursuit of happiness. What does that mean? Perhaps a more prominent question to ask is, 'how does one know whether people have succeeded in their pursuit'? Survey data, thus far, has served us well in determining where people see themselves on their journey. However, in an everchanging...
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