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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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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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Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Proposition 2Â½ 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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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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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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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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Do We Invest Less Time in Children? Trends in Parental Time in Selected Industrialized Countries Since the 1960's

Gauthier, Anne H.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Frank F. … - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2004

This paper examines trends in parental time in selected industrialized countries since the 1960s using time-use survey data. Despite the time pressures to which today’s families are confronted, parents appear to be devoting more time to children than they did some 40 years ago. Results also...

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China's Growth to 2030: The Roles of Demographic Change and Investment Premia

Tyers, Rod; Golley, Jane - 2006

China's economic growth has, hitherto, depended on its relative abundance of production labour and its increasingly secure investment environment. Within the next decade, however, China's labour force will begin to contract. This will set its economy apart from other developing Asian countries...

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The global implications of freer skilled migration

Tyers, Rod; Bain, Iain; Vedi, Jahnvi - 2006

One consequence of the trade and technology driven increases in skill premia in the older industrial regions since the 1980s has been a perceived “skill shortage” in those regions, along with freer migration of skilled and professional workers from developing regions. While skilled migration...

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Will the Skill-Premium in the Netherlands Rise in the Next Decades?

Dupuy, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

While the skill-premium has been rising sharply in the US and the UK for 20 years, the Dutch skill-premium decreased for much of that period and only started to rise in the early 90s. In this paper, we investigate whether the Dutch skill-premium will rise in the next decades. To answer this...

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