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China and India, two Asian countries that experienced a rapid decline in fertility since the middle of the twentieth … is that, under the same plausible parameter settings, the optimal paths for China and India differ substantially … developments, followed a path closer to the optimal fertility transition than China, where the fertility decline was state …
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Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
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China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
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Given that savings behaviour and worker productivity have strong life-cycle components and given that demographic profiles vary across countries, population age structure should be linked to differences in levels of economic development. In this paper we measure the economic importance of age...
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Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob Reurbanisierung nur ein Phänomen von Großstädten ist oder auch in Mittelzentren als Trend erkennbar wird. Dafür werden Daten der amtlichen Statistik zu 105 Mittelzentren in Nordwestdeutschland analysiert und die Ergebnisse mit denen der Oberzentren sowie...
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Mimicking the US in 1980 and 1990s, Brazil is a remarkable case of a major shift in homicides. After increasing steadily throughout the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, homicides reached a peak in 2003, and then fell. I show a strong time-series co-movement between homicide rates and the...
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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A … growth and schooling investments and returns. Using data from two surveys of twins in the People's Republic of China and …
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Die großen Städte Deutschlands gewinnen sowohl als Wohnorte als auch als Unternehmensstandorte mehr und mehr an Attraktivität. Die Einwohnerzahlen sind zwischen 1999 und 2008 um fast drei Prozent gestiegen, während die Bevölkerung Deutschlands insgesamt leicht schrumpfte. Ähnlich ist die...
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Public sector hiring has been an essential component of the social bargains that have maintained political stability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As these bargains eroded, public sector workforces contracted in relative terms owing to a partial freeze on hiring and the promise of...
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German states between 1991-2006. We adopt a Panel VAR approach to identify the feedback effects among the variables and …
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