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How Japan and the US can reduce the stress of aging
Goldin, Claudia - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523936
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How Japan and the US Can Reduce the Stress of Aging
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2016
In this short note I simulate the DR under various conditions and make comparisons with the US. Japan has experienced a …. Fertility is the largest of the contributors in Japan. If there are no demographic changes in Japan, the DR will be 0.88 by 2050 …The Japanese are becoming older. Americans are also becoming older. Demographic stress in Japan, measured by the …
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How Japan and the Us Can Reduce the Stress of Aging
Goldin, Claudia - 2016
The Japanese are becoming older. Americans are also becoming older. Demographic stress in Japan, measured by the … dependency ratio (DR), is currently about 0.64. In the immediate pre-WWII era it was even higher because Japan's total fertility … note I simulate the DR under various conditions and make comparisons with the US. Japan has experienced a large increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986287
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How America Graduated from High School : 1910 to 1960
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1994
Human capital accumulation and technological change were to the twentieth century what physical capital accumulation was to the nineteenth century -- the engine of growth. The accumulation of human capital accounts for almost 60% of all capital formation and 28% of the per capita growth residual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474157
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From the Valley to the Summit : The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Work
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004
Meaningful discussions about women at the top' can take place today only because a quiet revolution occurred about thirty years ago. The transformation was startlingly rapid and was accomplished by the unwitting foot soldiers of an upheaval that transformed the workforce. It can be seen in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468357
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How America Graduated from High School : 1910 to 1960
Goldin, Claudia - 2022
Human capital accumulation and technological change were to the twentieth century what physical capital accumulation was to the nineteenth century -- the engine of growth. The accumulation of human capital accounts for almost 60% of all capital formation and 28% of the per capita growth residual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309576
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From the Valley to the Summit : The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women'S Work
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
Meaningful discussions about women at the top' can take place today only because a quiet revolution occurred about thirty years ago. The transformation was startlingly rapid and was accomplished by the unwitting foot soldiers of an upheaval that transformed the workforce. It can be seen in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236720
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The expanding gender earnings gap : evidence from the LEHD-2000 census
Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia; … - In: The American economic review 107 (2017) 5, pp. 110-114
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The Savings of Ordinary Americans : The Philidelphia Saving Fund Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Alter, George; Goldin, Claudia; Rotella, Elyce J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1992
We explore the savings behavior and saving rates of ordinary Americans through their accounts at the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society. the oldest mutual savings bank in the United States founded in 1816 to encourage thrift among the working poor. Our sample contains the 2.374 accounts opened in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474847
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The Work and Wages of Single Women : 1870 to 1920
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1979
Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478773