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Ageing, the socioeconomic burden, labour market and migration. The Chinese case in an international perspective
Bruni, Michele - 2018
proceed at a very fast space and around the middle of the century the population of China is projected to be as old as that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863331
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Drivers of Labor Force Participation in Advanced Economies: Macro and Micro Evidence
Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2018
Despite significant headwinds from population aging in most advanced economies (AEs), labor force participation rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011915223
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Calling Older Workers Back to Work
Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2021
Population aging in advanced economies could have significant macroeconomic implica- tions, unless more individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417019
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A Tale of Two Tracks
Asali, Muhammad - 2018
Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased effort needed to produce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814622
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Divergence in Labour Force Growth: Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?
Beissinger, Thomas; Hellier, Joël; Marczak, Martyna - 2020
(Armington’s hypothesis), a low growth of the working population constrains the production of German goods, which entails an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250953
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Fertility and Population Policy
Ouedraogo, Abdoulaye; Tosun, Mehmet S.; Yang, Jingjing - 2018
Nations World Population Policies database, and the World Bank World Development Indicators for the period 1976 through 2013 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780699
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The Short-Term Effect of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Workers in Canada
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data
Neumeier, Christian; Sørensen, Todd; Webber, Douglas - 2017
The explicit costs of raising a child have grown over the past several decades. Less well understood are the implicit costs of having a child, and how they have changed over time. In this paper we use longitudinal administrative data from over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613142
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Can HIV alter the quantity-quality switch and delay the fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Gori, Luca; Lupi, Enrico; Manfredi, Piero; Sodini, Mauro - 2017
According to the conventional theory of the demographic transition, mortality decline has represented the major trigger for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a devastating impact on mortality, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654236
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result … 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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