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population shares have significantly negative effects on labor productivity growth, working via various channels - including … physical and human capital accumulation. Splitting the analysis for advanced and emerging economies shows that population … unfavorable demographic change - in particular, population aging-on labor productivity. …
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fertility and migration, but the economic effects are not yet fully understood. This paper studies the effects of population …
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Experimental data exhibit considerable individual heterogeneity. We review the econometric methods employed to characterize that heterogeneity. We pay particular attention to the trade-off between collecting and allowing for observable characteristics, such as the familiar demographics, and the...
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's demographic dynamics and argues that policymakers have the widest window of opportunity with that segment of population which is …
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population. Their role is also the most critical because prevention of chronic diseases requires a sustained, long …
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This paper studies the effect of demographic transitions on the economy of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper builds a model of multi-regions of the world and derives the path of macroeconomic variables including aggregate output, capital, labor and the saving rate as economies...
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Middle East and other EU neighbours to the EU28 and EFTA countries. The study finds that income gaps, diverging demographic …
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mobility. Also, demographic trends show a strong contrast between the population of the EU (ageing and shrinking rapidly) and …
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This paper pursues a scenario analysis to shed light on past and potential future labour supply and labour demand dynamics of different skill groups in the six Western Balkan countries (WB6). It differentiates between four educational levels (low, medium-general, medium-VET, and high) and looks...
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This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. We find evidence of convergence in three groups of countries, and distinguish the transitioning countries from those not transitioning....
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