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Pensions and fertility : back to the roots ; the introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2013

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …

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Daddy months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Pensions and fertility incentives

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2003

fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …

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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility? : government policies can have a modest effect on raising fertility, but broader social changes lowering fertilit...

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2014

Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on - and sometimes falling below - rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …

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Are family allowances and fertility-related pensions siamese twins?

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2004

-as-you-go pension system. Family allowances are compared to introducing a fertility-related component into the pension formula. In an …

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Population and economic growth : a review essay

Škare, Marinko; Blažević, Sanja - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 40, pp. 1036-1053

For centuries, scientists from various scientific fields have been leading lively discussions on the (bidirectional) relationship between population growth and economic growth. Particular attention was given to the nature of the population growth variable, i.e. whether it is an endogenous or...

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Economic foundations of contraceptive transitions : theories and a review of the evidence

Karra, Mahesh; Wilde, Joshua - 2023

fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …

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Pensions and fertility incentives

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2003

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Are family allowances and fertility-related pensions Siamese twins?

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2004

-as-you-go pension system. Family allowances are compared to introducing a fertility-related component into the pension formula. In an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002039241

Fertility, Efficiency Wages and Social Security in an Overlapping Generations Economy

Wang, Leran - 2017

This study analyses how fertility is affected by social security system when efficiency wages are considered in an … the childrearing costs level, and the higher effort, the higher ability to raise children, improving fertility …

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