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Nowadays, academic journals of high standing rarely accept a conceptual idea in a paper not instantly accompanied by econometric estimates. The idea would almost certainly get rejected. Empirical validation based on past statistical data has produced an unfortunate backward orientation in...
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This paper argues that currently advanced, aging economies experienced a qualitative change in the role of public education during the process of industrialization. In the early phases of the Industrial Revolution, public education was regarded as a duty that regulated child labor and thereby...
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The number of variables related to long-run economic growth is large compared with the number of countries. Bayesian model averaging is often used to impose parsimony in the cross-country growth regression. The underlying prior is that many of the considered variables need to be excluded from...
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Purpose Our paper studies a central issue with a long history in economics: the relationship between population and economic growth. We analyze the joint dynamics of economic and demographic growth in 111 countries during the period 1960-2019. Design/methodology/approach Using the concept of...
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The highly popular belief that rent–control leads to an increase in the amount of affordable housing is in contradiction with ample empirical evidence and congruent theoretical explanations. It can therefore be qualified as a misconception. We present the results of a preregistered online...
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The demographic change is one of the most important challenges for many developed economies in the twenty-first century. This paper examines the effect of workforce demographics and the distribution of skills on aggregated productivity and output. Population aging may lead to secular stagnation...
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Als Folge der Rekordzuwanderung von 2015 und der vorausberechneten hohen Nettomigration für die Folgejahre bleibt der über lange Zeit erwartete Bevölkerungsrückgang in Deutschland bis 2035 aus. Die 2016 veröffentlichte Bevölkerungsprognose des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln...
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Der demografische Wandel stellt Gesellschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft vor große Herausforderungen. Bevölkerungsprognosen sind dabei die zentrale quantitative Entscheidungsgrundlage, um Lösungsansätze zu entwerfen. Die Bevölkerungspro gnose des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft...
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Die 13. koordinierte Bevölkerungsvorausberechnung bildet die aktuell bedeutsamste Informationsquelle für die zukünftige Entwicklung der deutschen Bevölkerung. Annahmen über eine anhaltend hohe Nettomigration führen im Ergebnis zu einer fast neutralen Bevölkerungsbilanz bis 2030. Dies...
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Die deutschen Großstädte sind aktuell im Wachstumsmodus. Hohe Wanderungssalden aus dem In- und Ausland tragen zu einer positiven Bevölkerungsentwicklung bei. Diese Entwicklung setzt sich auch in der Zukunft fort. Die in diesem Beitrag vorgestellten stochastischen Bevölkerungsprognosen für...
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