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Convergence in GDP per Capita in the Euro Area and the EU at the Time of COVID-19

Licchetta, Mirko; Mattozzi, Giovanni - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 43-51

This paper investigates determinants of convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU between 1995 and 2021. It finds that the COVID-19 crisis temporarily slowed convergence but the estimated negative impact is significantly smaller than during the global financial crisis. Diverging...

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Resources, trade, and the aboriginal population: Lessons from the 1780s smallpox epidemic in the Hudson Bay Region

Carlos, Ann; Lewis, Frank - 2009

smallpox outbreak of 1780-82. We review contemporary descriptions of the epidemic and how Europeans at the time viewed its … impact on the native population of the region. We then explore the impact of the epidemic using three approaches. First, we … the epidemic in the context of the fur trade of the region; and finally, we suggest a measure of the population decline …

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Ländliche Räume im Sog der Reurbanisierung? Befunde für Baden-Württemberg und raumordnungspolitische Schlussfolgerungen

Siedentop, Stefan; Uphues, Norbert - In: Reurbanisierung in baden-württembergischen Stadtregionen, (pp. 187-203). 2015

Baden-Württembergs ländliche Räume galten über Jahrzehnte als Nutznießer des wirtschaftlichen Strukturwandels. Davon zeugen ein robustes Wirtschaftswachstum und ein kontinuierlicher Bevölkerungszuwachs, gespeist vor allem durch Zuwanderungen. In den vergangenen Jahren ist indes ein...

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Lübeck: Eine kreisfreie Stadt zwischen Sub- und Reurbanisierung

Bruns, Ralph W. - In: Reurbanisierung zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit: Ein …, (pp. 235-254). 2019

Während Lübeck in der Nachwendezeit unter deutlichen Bevölkerungsverlusten litt, verzeichnet die Stadt seit 2010 wieder steigende Bevölkerungszahlen. Motor dieser Entwicklung ist ein positiver Wanderungssaldo, der die nachteiligen Effekte einer negativen demografischen Entwicklung...

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Demografische Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland: Tendenzen und Implikationen

Ragnitz, Joachim - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 2, pp. 110-121

Seit dem Zusammenbruch der DDR hat sich die Bevölkerungszahl in den ostdeutschen Flächenländern um 2,1 Millionen Personen vermindert; dies sind 13,7 Prozent der ursprünglichen Einwohnerzahl. Ausschlaggebend dafür waren nicht nur hohe Nettoabwanderungen insbesondere bei jüngeren...

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Welfare analysis of HIV/AIDS: Formulating and computing a continuous time overlapping generations policy model

Shorish, Jamsheed - 2007

We introduce a continuous time overlapping generations demographic model, in which a social planner seeks to generate an optimal policy for influencing the demographic change of the underlying population in a neoclassical growth model. The model has the notable feature that the underlying state...

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Keeping up with the ageing Joneses

Fisher, Walter H.; Heijdra, Ben J. - 2007

In this paper we consider the implications of relative consumption externalities in the Blanchard-Yaari overlapping generations framework. Unlike most of the macroeconomic literature that studies this question, the differences between agents, and, thus, in their relative position, persist in...

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Winners and Losers from a Demographic Shock under Different Intergenerational Transfer Schemes

Zamac, Jovan - 2005

This study investigates the general equilibrium effects of a fertility shock under different intergenerational transfer schemes. The effects on lifetime income and utility for different generations, as well as the effects on factor prices, are analyzed in a three-period overlapping generations...

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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay

Lindbeck, Assar - 2001

Recent developments in society have generated misalignment between the welfare state and socio-economic conditions and preferences. This paper emphasis developments in the labor market and the structure, stability and preferences of the family, as well as macroeconomic changes. The latter...

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Pensions and Contemporary Socioeconomic Change

Lindbeck, Assar - 2001

The paper discusses the consequences for the functioning of different pension systems of various types of socioeconomic changes, mainly demographic developments, variations in productivity growth and changes in real interest rates. Two of the pension systems have exogenous and four have...

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