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Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the United States in the 1930s
Barreca, Alan I.; Fishback, Price V.; Kantor, Shawn - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 4, pp. 381-398
associated with increased out-migration of low-income groups from counties with high-risk malaria ecologies. These results … suggest that the AAA-induced migration played an important role in the reduction of malaria. …
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Demographic Change in Asia; The Impacton Optimal National Saving, Investment, and the Current Account
McDonald, Ian; Bésanger, Serge; Guest, Ross - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian economies—Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines—for the period 1997–2050 using a simulation approach. These calculations show the sensitivity of...
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Education and Social Mobility in Europe: Levelling the Playing Field for Europe’s Children and Fuelling its Economy
Altzinger, Wilfried; Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo; Sauer, Petra; … - WWWforEurope - 2015
The persistence of socioeconomic outcomes across generations acts as a barrier to a society’s ability to exploit its resources efficiently. In order to derive policy measures which aim at accelerating intergenerational mobility, we review the existent body of research on the causes, effects...
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The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...
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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
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Declining fertility and economic well-being: Do education and health ride to the rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - In: Labour Economics 22 (2013) C, pp. 70-79
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010664629
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Health&WealthMOD2030: A Microsimulation Model of the Long Term Economic Impacts of Disease Leading to Premature Retirements of Australians Aged 45-64 Years Old.
Schofield, Deborah; Shrestha, Rupendra; Kelly, Simon; … - In: International Journal of Microsimulation 7 (2014) 2, pp. 94-118
health on individuals and families, as well as on the budget balance when planning for the health needs of an ageing …, economic hardship (poverty), and government taxation revenue, spending and GDP in the years 2010, 2015, 2020, 2025 and 2030 … their work force status and health from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Surveys of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC …
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Prospective Ageing and Economic Growth in Europe
Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo; Lábaj, Martin; Pruzinský, Patrik - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2014
We assess empirically the role played by prospective ageing measures as a predictor of income growth in Europe. We show … that prospective ageing measures which move beyond chronological age and incorporate changes in life expectancy are able to … prospective ageing indicators as compared to standard measures based on chronological age is particularly relevant for long …
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European innovation partnership on active and healthy ageing: how is the EU connecting the dots between smart innovation and ageing boom
Lagiewka, Karolina; Pinto Antunes, Jorge - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research (2011) 2, pp. 95-103
Europe and many other countries in the world are currently facing increasingly complex and systemic challenges. Ageing … pioneered in a partnership on active and healthy ageing. This pilot, if successful, will help increase the healthy lifespan of … capable of connecting efficiently the dots between health innovation and needs of ageing populations and can also be a …
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Crisis y problemas demográficos en España desde el Antiguo Régimen hasta el presente
Pérez-Moreda, Vicente; Collantes, Fernando - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2012
El trabajo analiza las crisis demográficas españolas desde una perspectiva de largo plazo que cubre el Antiguo Régimen y la edad contemporánea. Para el Antiguo Régimen, se consideran las crisis de mortalidad: alzas bruscas de las defunciones que conducían a fuertes descensos de la...
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