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Save or pay-as-you-go : the effcts of ageing on optimal retirement funding
Hott, Christian - 2019
Ageing of most societies is driven by two factors: (1) birth rates are declining and (2) people are living longer … retirement. We develop an overlapping generation model in order to analyse the effects of ageing on the efficiency of retirement … old generation and that ageing makes a transfer via pay-as-you-go pension relatively more attractive. In optimum, the …
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Chapter 6. Intergenerational Risk Sharing
Beetsma, R.; Romp, W. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 311-380). 2016
This chapter reviews the literature on intergenerational risk sharing (IRS). We explore to what extent and how a market economy with an appropriate institutional setting can replicate a social planner's solution in models with increasing levels of complexity. In particular, we do this for...
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Local ties in spatial equilibrium
Zabek, Mike - 2019
If someone lives in an economically depressed place, they were probably born there. The presence of people with local ties – a preference to live in their birthplace – leads to smaller migration responses. Smaller migration responses to wage declines lead to lower real incomes and make real...
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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 they have been restricted to live in the foreign...
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Fast Locations and Slowing Labor Mobility
Mangum, Kyle; Coate, Patrick - 2018
This paper offers an explanation for declining internal migration in the United States motivated by a new empirical fact: the mobility decline is driven by locations with typically high rates of population turnover. These "fast" locations were the Sunbelt centers of population growth during the...
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Demographics, labor market power and the spatial equilibrium
Furbach, Nina - 2023
This paper studies how demographics affect aggregate labor market power, the urban wage premium and the spatial concentration of population. I develop a quantitative spatial model in which labor market competitiveness depends on the demographic composition of the local workforce. Using highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228342
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Demographics, labor market power and the spatial equilibrium
Furbach, Nina - 2024
This paper studies how demographics affect aggregate labor market power, the urban wage premium and the spatial concentration of population, I develop a quantitative spatial model in which labor market competitiveness depends on the demographic composition of the local workforce, Using highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490369
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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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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...
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Women's Rights and the Patterns of Migration
Brock, Schylar - 2018
This article investigates women's economic, political, and social rights in both home and destination countries as potential push and pull factors of female migration. Using a bilateral framework including 104 origin countries and 28 destination countries for the years 1990 and 2000, we document...
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