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What can boost female labor force participation in Asia?

Kinoshita, Yuko; Guo, Fang - 2015

fertility, and (iv) there is a need for more public spending on childcare for age 6-11 in Japan and Korea to help women continue …

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COVID-19 in Latin America : a high toll on lives and livelihoods

Bakker, Bas B.; Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Soares - 2021

Latin America was hit hard by Covid-19, both in terms of lives and livelihoods. Early lockdowns in the second quarter of 2020 prevented an explosion of deaths at the time but did not stop the pandemic from later wreaking havoc in the region. This paper investigates the dynamics of pandemics in...

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Demographic transition and pension reforms : adding demographics to GIMF

Carton, Benjamin; Fernandez-Corugedo, Emilio; Hunt, … - 2020

The Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF) is a multi-region, forward-looking, DSGE model developed at the International Monetary Fund for policy analysis and international economic research. This paper documents the incorporation of demographic features into the model. The analysis...

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China’s Demography and its Implications

Lee, Il Houng - 2013

In coming decades, China will undergo a notable demographic transformation, with its old-age dependency ratio doubling to 24 percent by 2030 and rising even more precipitously thereafter. This paper uses the permanent income hypothesis to reassess national savings behavior, with greater...

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Economic Implications of China's Demographics in the 21st Century

Cheng, Kevin C. - 2003

general equilibrium model. The simulations show that lower fertility rates yield lower saving rates. Since lower fertility … mobility is high in China, a low fertility rate implies more future capital outflows. But if capital is less mobile, low … fertility today lowers the domestic return to capital and raises the domestic return to labor. In addition, the paper finds no …