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The transmission of women’s fertility, human capital, and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Liu, Albert; Papps, Kerry - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 2, pp. 405-435
transmission of gender roles. Transmission rates for immigrant fertility and labor supply between generations are higher than for …Using the 1995–2011 March Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education … positively affected by the immigrant generation’s levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of …
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Population policy: Authoritarianism versus cooperation
Sen, Amartya - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 1, pp. 3-22
female employment opportunity) can, thus, be major forces in the direction of reducing fertility rates. This "cooperative …
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Trade, population growth, and the environment in developing countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio - In: Journal of Population Economics 23 (2010) 4, pp. 1351-1370
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Population, population density and technological change
Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - In: Journal of Population Economics 19 (2006) 3, pp. 611-626
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Saving, dependency and development
Schmidt, Robert M.; Kelley, Allen C. - In: Journal of Population Economics 9 (1996) 4, pp. 365-386
The widely-observed finding in the literature showing little or no relationship between population growth (and dependency) and saving requires modification based on panel and cross-section estimation of aggregate country data. While such a relationship is still weak in the hybrid Leff-type...
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Political instability, gender discrimination, and population growth in developing countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio - In: Journal of Population Economics 19 (2006) 2, pp. 431-446
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Population growth and social security financing
Lin, Shuanglin; Tian, Xiaowen - In: Journal of Population Economics 16 (2003) 1, pp. 91-110
By allowing the population growth to be flexible, this paper analyzes the effect of a tax reform that involves an introduction of consumption taxation for social security financing. It is found that population growth and labor supply play an important role in determining the effect of the tax...
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On the contribution of sectoral natural population growth to the aggregate poverty change
Chatti, Rim; Lahga, AbdelRahman El - In: Journal of Population Economics 21 (2008) 1, pp. 183-190
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A model on the escape from the Malthusian trap
Prskawetz, Alexia; Steinmann, Gunter; Feichtinger, Gustav - In: Journal of Population Economics 11 (1998) 4, pp. 535-550
We consider a demoeconomic model where output is produced using physical capital, human capital and technology as inputs. Human capital depends on the number of people and the level of education in the economy. The dynamics of labour, physical capital, education and technology are endogenously...
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Learning-by-doing, population pressure, and the theory of demographic transition
Strulik, Holger - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 3, pp. 285-298
The present paper discusses the long-run effects of two interdependent relations between economic and population growth. According to a frequently used formulation of the population-push hypothesis, learning-by-doing effects in production lead to increasing returns to scale and, therefore, to a...
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