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Survey of demographic challenges and discussion of human resource management strategies
Schwarz, Doreen; Hipp, Christiane - 2007
Human resource management is one of the key factors in the productivity, growth and value of companies in which knowledge plays a key role. However, especially the shrinking of industrialized societies, in which the population is ageing rapidly, will dramatically influence the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307458
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Winners and Losers from a Demographic Shock under Different Intergenerational Transfer Schemes
Zamac, Jovan - 2005
This study investigates the general equilibrium effects of a fertility shock under different intergenerational transfer … different tax schemes. The economic effects of a fertility shock vary substantially with different intergenerational transfer … the effects from a fertility shock it is vital that the effects on human capital are minimized. For a baby boom shock this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321536
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Can Demography Improve Inflation Forecasts? The Case of Sweden
Bruér, Mattias - 2002
Time series regressions indicate that age structure has significant forecasting power on Swedish inflation. The results agree with a Phillips-Okun framework, assuming that the demographic composition affects productivity. The relative age effects are also relatively well in accordance with what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321784
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Population growth and carbon emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669327
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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019
This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058645
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Population forecasts, fiscal policy, and risk
Tuljapurkar, Shripad - 2006
probabilistic forecasts of demographic rates, mortality, fertility, and immigration, and shows how these are combined to make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266527
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The effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on births
Bitler, Marianne; Zavodny, Madeline - 2000
In an effort to increase the use of prenatal care by pregnant women and the utilization of medical care by children, eligibility for Medicaid was expanded dramatically for pregnant women and children during the 1980s and early 1990s. By lowering the costs of prenatal care, delivery, and child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397401
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Is the male marriage premium due to selection? The effect of shotgun weddings on the return to marriage
Ginther, Donna; Zavodny, Madeline - 1998
In standard cross-sectional wage regressions, married men appear to earn 10 to 20 percent more than comparable never-married men. One proposed explanation for this male marriage premium is that men may be selected into marriage on the basis of characteristics valued by employers as well as by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397424
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Explaining changes in the age distribution of displaced workers
Rodriguez, Daniel; Zavodny, Madeline - 2000
Using Displaced Worker Survey data, this paper examines changes in the age distribution of displaced workers during the 1983–87 and 1993–97 periods. Older workers comprised a significantly larger fraction of displaced workers during the later period. Potential explanations for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397432
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Does family structure affect children's educational outcomes?
Ginther, Donna K.; Pollak, Robert A. - 2000
In this paper we examine the effect of family structure on children’s educational outcomes by exploiting the sibling structure in the NLSY and NLSY-Child to control for unobserved heterogeneity across families and individuals. We also compare outcomes for children within the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397445