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Since the early 1960s, South Korea has been going through a rapid fertilitydecline, along with its socioeconomic development and effective family planningprograms. After achieving a desired replacement level of fertility in 1984, the totalfertility rate (TFR) of Korea has gradually declined to...
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John Bongaarts' proximate determinants model of fertility has accounted for over 90 percent of variation in the total fertility rate (TFR) of primarily developing nations and historical populations. Recently, dramatically low fertility rates across the globe have raised questions regarding...
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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2009. Major: Economics. Advisors: Narayana Kocherlakota. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 83 pages, appendices A-B. Ill. (some col.)
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Despite abundant studies of the application of pension systems in developed countries, little work has been done on how to apply a sustainable pension system in developing countries. The set-up of pension systems in developed countries and developing countries are expected to be different...
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El envejecimiento de la población es un proceso imparable que continúa suponiendo un reto para la sostenibilidad del sistema de reparto de pensiones en la mayoría de los países desarrollados, incluida España. Gran parte de estos países necesitan llevar a cabo reformas en sus sistemas de...
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990’s had no adverse effects on native wages and … ‘flexible’ as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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is placed on how immigration status/nativity, gender, nativity, and skin color influences job search activities and wage … general labor market. When examining the stratification factors of immigration/nativity status, gender, and skin color, in …
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The dissertation contains four stand-alone studies, chapters 2 through 5. In chapter 1, I highlight commonalities among the studies. In chapter 2, I consider the principle of structural balance - "The friend of a friend is a friend, the enemy of a friend is an enemy, the friend of an enemy is an...
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Immigration junger, hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte am ehesten geeignet ist, der durch den demografischen Alterungsprozess …Immigration policy and the sustainability of the welfare system have recently been subject of political discussion in … analyzes, whether selective immigration policy may lead to fiscal alleviation of the welfare system. A survey of empirical …
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interplay of immigration, native human-capital investment and the resulting consequences for the labour market outcome of … natives and necessary implications for the immigration policy of the host country. Thus, we either consider educational … immigration. The first paper gives an overview on the economic literature on the impact of immigration on unemployment and wages …
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