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Ageing, the socioeconomic burden, labour market and migration. The Chinese case in an international perspective
Bruni, Michele - 2018
. However, due to the speed with which the fertility rate dropped and life expectancy increased, China ageing process will … this process, also by an economic indicator of dependency and socioeconomic burden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863331
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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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Gender-Specific Effects of Import Competition on Individual Fertility Decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking import competition to longitudinal individual data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312626
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Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of con icting family goals within a couple, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390746
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Trends in Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Physical Disability and Social Support among U.S. Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Living Alone, 2000-2018
Chen, Shanquan; Zhang, Huanyu; Underwood, Benjamin R.; … - 2023
Informal care is a primary source of support for older adults with cognitive impairment but is less available to those who live alone. We leverage the U.S. Health and Retirement Survey 2000-2018 to examine trends in the prevalence of physical disability and social support among older adults with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000437
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Social Barriers to Female Migration: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012302186
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252995
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The financial support for long-term elderly care and household saving behaviour
Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo - 2017
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the household’s propensity to save. Using the difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all the Scottish elderly aged 65 and above. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623724
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Health, Cognition and Work Capacity Beyond the Age of 50
Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2019
The rising cost of old-age dependency in Europe and elsewhere invariably leads to reforms aimed at raising the …, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical … fundamentally affected by ageing, and it adds little to our capacity to predict how work capacity evolves with age. Fourth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950275
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The well-being age U-shape effect in Germany is not flat
Blanchflower, David G.; Piper, Alan - 2021
Kassenboehmer and DeNew (2012) claim that there is no well-being age U-shape effect for Germany, when controlling for fixed effects and respondent experience and interviewer characteristics in the German Socio-Economic Panel, 1994-2006. We re-estimate with a longer run of years and restrict the...
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