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Norwegian cohort emigration
Thonstad, Tore; Riis, Christian; Bævre, Kåre - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 3, pp. 473-489
This paper introduces a counterfactual technique to estimate net emigration from Norwegian birth cohorts from 1846 to 1900. A main finding is that despite strong fluctuations in annual emigration, the percentage reduction of each cohort due to emigration was surprisingly stable for all cohorts...
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis T.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
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Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Proposition 2½ Overrides on School Segregation in Massachusetts
Zabel, Jeffrey - In: Education Finance and Policy 9 (2014) 4, pp. 481-514
segregation in school districts in Massachusetts. This can occur because richer, low-minority towns tend to have more successful … school district enrollments and other district- and town-level characteristics. I find evidence that passing overrides … earmarked for schools results in a significant decrease in the percent of nonwhite students enrolled in Massachusetts school …
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O uso das taxas de crescimento por idade para identificação das principais etapas da transição demográfica no Brasil
Myrrha, Luana Junqueira Dias; Siviero, Gabriela Pamila … - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2012
the main features of the demographic history in Brazil. Based on simulated patterns of age specific growth rates discussed …
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The Brazilian Pension System: Recent Reforms and Challenges Ahead
Bonturi, Marcos - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002
Brazil’s public pension expenditure is about 9 per cent of GDP, above the OECD average. Given that OECD countries are … generally not only wealthier, but also significantly older, Brazil’s pension expenditures are clearly excessive, draining … for only 5 per cent of total retirees. Given the demographic challenges Brazil is likely to face in the next decades …
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Langfristige demographische Herausforderungen in den BRICS-Ländern
Ragnitz, Joachim - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 20 (2013) 01, pp. 24-31
dieses Beitrags stehen die künftige demographische Entwicklung in den sogenannten BRICS-Ländern (Brasilien, Russland, Indien …
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Governments and the Market for Longevity-Indexed Bonds
Antolin, Pablo - 2009
Uncertainty about length of life, longevity risk, is a growing financial problem for pension funds and annuity providers. They would like to transfer longevity risk away to institutions better placed to deal with it. Unfortunately, there is a lack of financial instruments to hedge against this...
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The Role of Demographic Variables in Explaining Financial Returns in Italy
Torricelli, Costanza - 2009
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the relationship between asset returns and age-structure by investigating the case of Italy, which is experiencing one of the most pronounced ageing in the world. To this end, time-series regressions are run, in which real returns on different...
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The Effect of Population Ageing on Household Portfolio Choices in Italy
Brunetti, Marianna - 2009
Based on widely accepted evidence on the exceptional ageing of the Italian population, this paper aims to assess the impact of ageing on household portfolios in Italy and hence ultimately on financial markets. To this end, we use data taken by the Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721473
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To Hedge or Not to Hedge : Managing Demographic Risk in Life Insurance Companies
Post, Thomas - 2009
Demographic risk, i.e., the risk that life tables change in a nondeterministic way, is a serious threat to the financial stability of an insurance company having underwritten life insurance and annuity business. The inverse influence of changes in mortality laws on the market value of life...
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