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From Malthus to Modern Growth : Child Labor, Schooling and Human Capital

Vogel, Edgar - 2014

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of fertility, human capital accumulation, child labor and … survival probability leads to falling fertility, eventually to investment into schooling and the demise of child labor. Child … generate a demographic transition. Falling mortality can only explain a relatively small part of the fertility decline. A …

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Mortality, Fertility, Education and Capital Accumulation in a Simple OLG Economy

Ludwig, Alexander - 2009

We develop a simple overlapping generations model to analytically show that population aging leads to increased educational efforts through a general equilibrium effect. The key mechanism at work in the model is that scarcity of raw labor increases the rate of return to human capital relative to...

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The Role of Trauma on Integration : The Case of Syrian Refugees

Hunkler, Christian - 2019

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The Nativity Wealth Gap in Europe : A Matching Approach

Ferrari, Irene - 2018

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The (Option-)Value of Overstaying

Meango, Romuald - 2020

English abstract: Asylum seekers with a rejected application account for three out of five illegal migrants in Germany. The objective of this paper is to calculate asylum seekers’ ex ante returns on overstaying. It takes advantage of a unique survey designed to permit estimation of a...

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Qualifications, Potentials and Life Courses of Syrian Asylum Seekers in Germany

Khourshed, May; Hunkler, Christian; Meango, Romuald; … - 2019

German Abstract: In diesem Beitrag werden einige der wichtigsten Ergebnisse der Studie „Qualifikationen, Potenziale und Lebensverläufe syrischer Asylbewerber in Bayern“, welche im zweiten Halbjahr 2017 durchgeführt wurde, skizziert. Unsere Studie ergänzt die Literatur zu Asylbewerbern in...

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Educational Differences in Smoking : Selection Versus Causation

Juerges, Hendrik - 2017

English Abstract: We investigate sources of educational differences in smoking. Using a large German data set containing retrospective information on the age at smoking onset, we compare age-specific hazard rates of starting smoking between (future) low and high educated individuals. We find...

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Double Trouble : The Burden of Child Rearing and Working on Maternal Mortality

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea - 2019

to fertility in the cohorts of older women considered. Deaths due to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

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The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from Administrative Data

Salm, Martin; Schunk, Daniel - 2009

We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions – diagnosed by government physicians – can account for...

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Parental Income and Child Health in Germany

Reinhold, Steffen; Jürges, Hendrik - 2009

We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the UK. The relationship in Germany is about as strong...

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