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Gender-Specific Effects of Import Competition on Individual Fertility Decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking import competition to longitudinal individual data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312626
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Gender-specific effects of import competition on individual fertility decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking import competition to longitudinal individual data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313045
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The impact of health and education on labor force participation in aging societies : projections for the United States and Germany from a dynamic microsimulation
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - 2021
, improvements in the education structure will add about two million persons to the US labor force and about half a million persons … educational structure of the population and of policies which address the health impediments for labor force participation. Of the … educational scenarios that we evaluate, increasing the number of persons who achieve more than lower education has the strongest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697468
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Income, social support networks, life satisfaction : lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in Germany
Kroh, Martin; Kühne, Simon; Kipp, Christian; Richter, David - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 33/35, pp. 335-345
Towards the very end of this legislative period, a cross-caucus parliamentary majority gave same-sex marriage the green light - progress for the legal equality of homosexuals in Germany. This report focuses on the life situations of homosexual and bisexual people in Germany. The careers they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717062
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The impact of skills shortage on economic development in Germany : a mixed method approach
Hertrich, Tobias Johannes; Brenner, Thomas - 2024
regional economic development. Using the spatial vector autoregressive panel model, significant effects on gross domestic … product (GDP), employment are found, but not on research and development (R&D) activities. Expert interviews are used to dig …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515803
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Does the stork deliver happiness? : parenthood and life satisfaction
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using longitudinal data on women from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable childless adults, mostly finding small and often negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743911
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The total fertility rate in Germany until 2040 : a stochastic principal components projection based on age-specific fertility rates
Vanella, Patrizio - 2016
future demographic development, in our case, the course of the TFR. Official forecasts often assume that the TFR will remain …. The age-specific structure of the modeling procedure gives a detailed insight of the future development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527282
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Exploring the Puzzle of Human Reproduction : Register Data based Evidence from France and Germany
Lipowski, Cäcilia - 2020
Birth rates differ strongly across European states, despite the deep economic harmonisation process related to European integration. This study uses large scale administrative data from France and Germany to analyse and directly compare fertility patterns in two major European economies over a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832297
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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
practice, the development of marriages postintroduction significantly differed from the period prior to the policy, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262952
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Stochastic population forecast for Germany and its consequence for the German pension system
Härdle, Wolfgang; Mysickova, Alena - 2009
Population forecasts are crucial for many social, political and economic decisions. Official population projections rely in general on deterministic models which use different scenarios for future vital rates to indicate uncertainty. However, this technique shows substantial weak points such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814452