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A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - 2009
during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the …
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Does Democracy Foster Trust?
Rainer, Helmut - 2006
trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779963
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Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions : Modeling Regional Heterogeneity
de Graaff, Thomas - 2017
otherwise be missed if a standard approach was adopted. We apply our proposed method to a case-study of Germany where we show …
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Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019 : Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian Till; Franke, Richard - 2022
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany … Germany, we establish that nearly half of them experienced a reversal of fortune between 1926 and 2019, i.e., they moved from … the lower to the upper median of the income distribution or vice versa. Economic decline is concentrated in North Germany …
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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...
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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics
Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2010
I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two-period overlapping generation model I show that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137248
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Demographic Divide and Labor Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2011
This paper provides a demographic outlook of the Euro-Mediterranean region and then shows the economic and fiscal consequences of such demographic differences within a two-region model with international labor mobility. International labor mobility is also examined through an externalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117397
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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment
Marchiori, Luca - 2011
This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced international capital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data....
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Ge, Suqin - 2012
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
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