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Ageing and productivity: Introduction
Bloom, David E.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2013
Population ageing will be the dominant feature of the world's demographic landscape in the coming decades, raising … articles in this special issue of Labour Economics define and address key issues with respect to the interplay of ageing … the economic effects of population ageing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293198
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282369
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Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets
Böhm, Michael Johannes; Gregory, Terry; Qendrai, Pamela; … - 2020
Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial …-causal supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes, drawing on the identification strategy of Böhm and Siegel (2020 … age rises. A decomposition of the heterogeneous regional trends using our estimates shows that ageing of rural regions is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497784
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371912
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Ageing and Productivity: Introduction
Bloom, David E.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Population ageing will be the dominant feature of the world's demographic landscape in the coming decades, raising … articles in this special issue of Labour Economics define and address key issues with respect to the interplay of ageing … the economic effects of population ageing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096064
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Migration and Globalization: What's in it for Developing Countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525040
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Stayers and returners: Educational self-selection among US immigrants and returning migrants
Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto - 2013
This paper empirically examines the educational selectivity of United States immigrants and of those that return to their source country. Data from the 1970 to 2000 U.S. Census and the 2010 American Community Survey are employed. Ten countries are selected for the study based on their historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293107
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Hypergamy, cross-boundary marriages, and family behavior
Weiss, Yoram; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2013
We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross-boundary marriages accounted for almost half the marriages registered in HK in 2006. Because of large differences in male income between China and HK, marriages of HK men with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293113
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293135
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Male wage inequality and marital dissolution: Is there a link?
Bellou, Andriana - 2013
After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been declining ever since. The timing of deceleration and decline in the rates of marital disruption interestingly coincides with a period of substantial growth in wage inequality. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293137