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Potential labour supply in the regions of the Nordic countries : a method to forecast and test regional patterns of potential labour supply

Kangasharju, Aki; Dall Schmidt, Torben; Rauhut, Daniel - 2010

Population changes are decisive for growth performances. This has been shown in a number of country studies, using time series data. The analysis is here extended in two dimensions: 1) the importance of demographics for growth is taking in to account a regional dimension allowing for spatial...

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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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The challenge of SGI provision in rural areas : a paper prepared for the 55th European Congress of Regional Science International, 25-29 August 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal

Rauhut, Daniel; Komornicki, Tomasz - 2015 - Draft 16 July 2015

The access to Services of General Interest (SGI) is a highly relevant factor for territorial cohesion and in creating economic opportunity. Although the topic of SGI was not on the top of the policy agenda during the last decade, it attracts far more interest since the start of the economic...

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"Megacities and countries : urbanization and real convergence"

Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014

A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9 million...

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Can an ageing Scotland afford independence?

Lisenkova, Katerina; Mérette, Marcel - 2013

The aim and scope of this paper is to isolate the effects of population ageing in the context of potential Scottish …, and independence will make it harder for it to provide for its ageing population. In this paper we developed a multi … the UK and all government expenditures associated with its ageing population (mainly pensions and health) are funded on a …

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Determinants of return migration in Spain in its new role as a receiving country

Larramona, Gemma - 2011

Around 5% of the foreign population residing in Spain took the decision to leave this country in 2009. Spain has recently become a receiving country for migrants and the phenomenon of temporary migration is on the rise. The aim of this paper is to provide some insights into the determinants that...

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Are the number of skilled workers running out in Germany? : the (non)consequences of demographic change

Garloff, Alfred; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2013 - This version: 1st February 2013, preliminary

Two stylised facts of the German labour market are that first, the demand for (high-)skilled labour has been growing rapidly for a number of years and second, the country is facing a particularly strong demographic change with the expected size of the population decreasing rapidly and the...

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Reversing the depressive dynamics of the Portuguese peripheral areas : DEMOSPIN model

Castro, Eduardo Anselmo de; Silva, Carlos Jorge; Gomes, … - 2013

Portugal is divided in two major parts: i) the coastal zone, with a higher demographic density and where the main economic activities are concentrated; ii) the periphery, where a low economic performance and a depressed demographic dynamics coexist. Economy and demography interact, reinforcing...

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Estimating net migrations at regional and age-specific group levels

Martins, José Manuel; Marques, Joao Lourenço; Silva, … - 2013

human desertification and population ageing. In order to analyse the requirements to revert this process, DEMOSPIN project …

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Migration as opportunity for rural regions : European Regional Science Association (ERSA), 52nd European Congress, Tuesday 21st - Saturday 25th August 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia. :...

Strahl, Wibke; Machold, Ingrid; Dax, Thomas - 2012

In spite of an unbroken interest of migrants for metropolitan areas and cities, the immigration of foreign people into rural, and as well peripheral, regions of Austria increasingly receives attention over recent years. Actually, 21% of the population of foreign origin live in municipalities...

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