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International Protection of Women's Reproductive Rights : A Critical Assessment
Shandilya, Akshay - 2013
that women’s reproductive rights fall. It is pertinently a delicate aspect of our civilization which has been given a deaf … millions of women to die. It was only in the latter half of 20th century that authorities began recognizing the need to codify … world. This article specifically aligns itself for the inclusion of reproductive rights of women in municipal legislations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156062
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262781
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Does globalisation increase child labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410919
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The importance of being mature: the effect of demographic maturation on global per-capita GDP
Gómez, Rafael; Hernández de Cos, Pablo - 2006
Given that savings behaviour and worker productivity have strong life-cycle components and given that demographic profiles vary across countries, population age structure should be linked to differences in levels of economic development. In this paper we measure the economic importance of age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604716
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The Importance of Being Mature : the Effect of Demographic Maturation on Global Per-Capita Gdp
Gomez, Rafael - 2007
Given that savings behaviour and worker productivity have strong life-cycle components and given that demographic profiles vary across countries, population age structure should be linked to differences in levels of economic development. In this paper we measure the economic importance of age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778366
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The Importance of Being Mature : The Effect of Demographic Maturation on Global Per-Capita Income
Gomez, Rafael; de Cos, Pablo Hernández - 2006
Given that savings and productivity follow a hump shaped profile with respect to age and given that demographic profiles vary across countries, population age structure may be linked to differences in levels of economic development. In this paper we measure the importance of age structure in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057377
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The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition : evidence from internal migration in 19th century France
Daudin, Guillaume; Franck, Raphaël; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476530
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Cross-country differences in the long-run economic impacts of increased fertility
Davoine, Thomas - 2022
Higher fertility slowly increases the workers-to-retirees ratio over the long run, which can ease the pension financing …-productivity profiles and pension systems can explain the exception. Fertility-promoting policies will always ease the public finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012813390
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Family planning and climate change
Gerlagh, Reyer; Lupi, Veronica; Galeotti, Marzio - 2018
the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952006
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Temperature, climate change, and human conception rates : evidence from Hungary
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2020
In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and 2015 in Hungary, we show that exposure to hot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212843