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Delayed childbearing and urban revival : a structural approach
Moreno-Maldonaldo, Ana; Santamaria, Clara - 2024
Since 1980, college graduates have increasingly sorted into the downtowns of U.S. cities. This led to urban revival, a process that involves fast growth in income and housing prices downtown. Motivated by the observation that young childless households concentrate downtown, we link urban revival...
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Ageing and productivity growth: are there macro-level cohort effects of human capital?
Werding, Martin - 2008
Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...
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Do age complementarities affect labor productivity? : evidence from German firm level data
Peters, Jan Cornelius - 2016
In Germany, as in many other European countries, there will be a shift in the workforce age structure in the next decades. The number of older workers will increase, and the number of younger and middle aged workers will decline. This paper provides evidence how the shift in the relative labor...
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Do age complementarities affect labor productivity? : evidence from German firm level data
Peters, Jan Cornelius - 2017 - slightly revised version
In Germany, as in many other European countries, there will be a shift in the workforce age structure in the next decades. The number of older workers will increase, and the number of younger and middle aged workers will decline. This paper provides evidence how the shift in the relative labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711005
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Labor market tightness and individual wage growth : evidence from Germany
Brunow, Stephan; Lösch, Stefanie; Okhrin, Ostap - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-21
It is often stated that certain occupations in Germany, because of "Demographic Change ", are dwindling, implying a labor shortage. We investigate the 10-year wage growth of young employees entering the labor market in different occupations. Our findings suggest that regional labor market...
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Demographic change and unemployment in East Germany : how close are the ties?
Fuchs, Michaela; Weyh, Antje - 2014 - Preliminary version
In East Germany a profound demographic change has been taking place that manifests itself in the shrinkage and the aging of the population. One major cause is the drop in the East German fertility rates by about half directly after the reunification of Germany in 1990. In no other countries of...
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Birth Order in the Very Long-Run : Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940
Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...
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The Determination of a Migration Wave Using Ethnicity and Community Ties
Locher, Lilo - 2001
If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration …, they adopt some of the new country?s habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when …. Looking at ethnic German migration in the 1990s, we compare basic features of the migration wave with assumptions of the model …
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Female Brain Drain in Poland and Germany : New Perspectives for Research
Beaumont, Karolina - 2017
1989-2015: female and male migration patterns during specific time periods, the challenges of female migration, the … perspective.Global female migration is a topic frequently studied in academic literature; however, the topic of female brain drain … migration, and human capital, while noting the gaps in data and policymaking. A further objective of this report is to highlight …
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What Old Stagers Could Teach Us – Examining Age Complementarities in Regional Innovation Systems
Arntz, Melanie - 2014
Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and increase regional disparities. The age-creativity link is however far from clear at the aggregate level. Contributing to this debate, we estimate the causal effect of the workforce...
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