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China and India, two Asian countries that experienced a rapid decline in fertility since the middle of the twentieth …. Moreover, our analysis shows that India, where the fertility decline emerged as a consequence of societal and economic … century, are the focus of this paper. Although there is no doubt that lower fertility levels have many positive effects on the …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270531
research into the following areas: (a) demographic processes (fertility, mortality, migration, gender in demographic process …
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This study investigates the realisation of time-related positive fertility intentions using a comparative approach …. Four European countries of medium size are compared, all with rather different fertility regimes: the Netherlands and … to construct a typology of fertility intentions and outcomes, and not only to identify common patterns but also different …
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We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
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Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
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This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they intend to raise. Income inequality lowers output per worker only if the inequality is attributed in some part to unexpected disturbances after childbirth.
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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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considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator - total fertility rate. Using a panel … fertility. These findings suggest that the appreciation of the demographic effect of foreign aid can have important implications …
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