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youth cohort size. Finally, due to recent declines in fertility, some European countries will see reductions in the size of …
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Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and six proxies for industry rates of technological change, we study the impact of technological change on skill accumulation among young male workers in the manufacturing sector during the time period 1987 through 1992. Production workers...
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Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the...
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China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations … primary causes of high levels of savings among Chinese households …
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issues, including female labor force participaiton, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …
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Is the stock market boom a result of the baby boom? This paper develops an overlapping generations model in which a baby boom is modeled as a high realization of a random birth rate, and the price of capital is determined endogenously by a convex cost of adjustment. A baby boom increases...
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critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents … aggregate fertility on household savings … perceive children as an important source of old-age support and that, in partial equilibrium (PE), increased fertility lowers …
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fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French … village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly …
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"preventive checks" (marriage, fertility). Developing economies since the Industrial Revolution, and more recently especially … Asian economies, have experienced steady income growth accompanied by sharply falling fertility and mortality rates. We … develop a dynamic model of endogenous fertility, longevity, and human capital formation within a Malthusian framework that …
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outcomes considered include general consumption patterns at a moment in time, savings and the rate of growth of consumption … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …
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