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Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics

Lee, Ronald D. - 2019

Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much of it was intended to illuminate issues of...

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Social Security and Endogenous Demographic Change: Child Support and Retirement Policies

Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Fioroni, Tamara - 2021

This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal...

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Retire later or work harder?

Bell, David N.F.; Hart, Robert A. - 2010

We compare two policies of increasing British state pension provision: (a) increase the pensionable age of men and women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons for policy makers to give serious consideration to the...

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Retire Later or Work Harder?

Bell, David N.F.; Hart, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Demography and Provisions for Retirement: The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach

van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Hop, J. Peter - 2020

interests of the different groups are only partly coinciding. For a given demography and interest rate, the joint result of the … in the capital market with a corresponding equilibrium interest rate. In this paper we assume a demography with one … determined by the demography and cannot be modified at will as a long-term political instrument. We find that this is relevant …

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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 concerns about labor productivity and about economic outcomes at both the individual, enterprise, and macro levels. The articles in this special issue of Labour Economics define and...

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How to Combine the Entry of Young People in the Labour Market with the Retention of Older Workers?

Eichhorst, Werner; Boeri, Tito; De Coen, An; Galasso, … - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both groups. The evidence collected shows that there is no...

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Unfit for service: The implications of rising obesity for US military recruitment

Cawley, John; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by examining a previously underappreciated consequence of the rise in obesity in the United States: challenges for military recruitment. Specifically, this paper estimates the percent...

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Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act reduce the state's unauthorized immigrant population?

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2011

We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state population characterized as foreign-born, as non-citizen, and as non-citizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states against which the population trends of...

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Estimating the Lifecycle Fertility Consequences of WWII Using Bunching

Zwiers, Esmée - 2024

In the Netherlands, an immediate baby boom followed the end of WWII and the baby bust of the 1930s. I propose a novel application of the bunching methodology to examine whether the war shifted the timing of fertility or changed women's completed fertility. I disaggregate the number of births by...

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