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Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries
García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434614
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Generational accounting - quo vadis?
Raffelhüschen, Bernd (contributor) - 2001
This paper focuses on the problems involved in developing cross-country comparisons of the intergenerational stance of fiscal policy. Of course, these comparisons are nowadays based on the method of generational accounting and in particular most of them rely on comparing the total size of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514204
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The demographic transition: Causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282290
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The demographic transition: Causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2010
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284073
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The demographic transition : causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2010
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth -- Demographic transition ; Gender Gap ; Human capital ; Fertility ; Mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669192
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The demographic transition : causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530744
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Demographic Changes and Economic Growth : an Empirical Analysis
Narciso, Alexandre - 2016
In this paper, we examine the overall effect of demographic transition on economic growth in the context of globalization. Theoretical foundations are based on the Solow–Swan model extended to include demographic variables. The GDP growth is modeled by using fixed effects unbalanced panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984627
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The Demography of Genocide
Kugler, Tadeusz - 2021
The demographic foundation of nations is remarkably resilient to losses with the causes of that resiliency not uniform cross-nationally. Countries in the early stages of development have very high birth rates and a growing youthful population with only the most extreme cases of genocide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221778
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The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom and Management Quality
Feyrer, James - 2009
This paper examines whether management changes caused by the entry of the baby boom into the workforce explain the US productivity slowdown in the 1970s and resurgence in the 1990s. Lucas (78) suggests that the quality of managers plays a significant role in determining output. If there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718254
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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2021
and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318921