Showing 1 - 10 of 267
Ageing is a central issue in policy debates in many countries. Much of the attention in the current debate is focused … question by examining how ageing changes the regional variation in the future potential labour supply in different countries … the future levels of Labour Potential in the Nordic regions not necessarily revealed by the variation in ageing patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332481
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099204
research spatial diferencies of ageing process between 272 NUTS 2 regions today. The analyses on this spatial level are working … and elderly substitution in population and evaluation of the ageing process. Therefore we are using the basic measurement … following three basic demographical indices: the children ration, the eledrely ratio, the ageing index (IA) and the dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400020
The author describes the features of the demographic development of the Arctic zone of the North-Eastern region of Russia. The Arctic zone of the North-Eastern region of Russia is one of the most extreme regions of the world. Territories located after the Arctic a circle are included in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400082
This paper investigates the sources of the significantly higher labor force participation of East Ger-man women as compared to their peers in West Germany. The previous literature attributes this to a legacy of socialist labor market policies. This study challenges this hypothesis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301679
The paper uses the natural experiment of German unification to study the role of labor supply behavior in explaining occupational segregation by sex. Analyzing a panel of regional labor market data constructed from administrative records, we observe that inflows of East German migrants with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270098
This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400439
There is a successful and growing number of studies published in top-economics journals that exploit the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099134
After more than one decade of sustained economic growth, accompanied by falling poverty and inequality, Brazil has been hit by an economic recession starting in 2014. This paper investigates the consequences of this labor market shock for the victory of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287920
We examine the employment and earnings effects of long-distance moves for married couples based on a new administrative data set from Germany. Using difference-in-difference propensity score matching, we estimate the average treatment effect for moving couples while precisely accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623116