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Why start a business in a declining rural area with an ageing society? : a UK - NL case study
Delfmann, Heike - 2014
, ageing region? And how do their motivations fit in the opportunity and necessity dimension? Rural Northumberland (UK) and … rural Drenthe (NL) are both facing a declining workforce and are strongly ageing. By means of semi structured, face …
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Unemployment and self-concept
Redek, Tjaša; Sušjan, Andrej; Kostevc, Črt - In: Economic research (2013), pp. 185-200
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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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Japan : government interventions and part-time family farming
Shoji, Gen; Yoshida, Kunimitsu; Yokoyama, Satoshi - In: Asian smallholders in comparative perspective, (pp. 81-107). 2019
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Immigration : a way out of the Swedish rural population crisis : paper prepared for the ERSA conference in Vienna, August 23-26, 2016, Session G_J. Migrations, diasporas, and agein...
Johansson, Mats - 2016
ageing process as many of the immigrants are relatively young and with a higher fertility but here the effects on natural …
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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 effects of early retirement incentives on retirement decisions
Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla - 2019
This paper analyzes behavioral responses to a reform in the German public pension system that allowed individuals with a long contribution history to retire without deductions before reaching the regular retirement age. Following the 2014 reform, individuals with 45 contribution years could...
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Old-age poverty : the household perspective : a microsimulation approach of pension entitlements in Germany
Finkler, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: 11 February 2019
Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public pension schemes with respect to the systems "raison...
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From pain patient to junkie : an economic theory of painkiller consumption and its impact on wellbeing and longevity
Strulik, Holger - 2019
In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of painkiller consumption that combines the theory of health deficit accumulation with the theory of addiction. Chronic pain is conceptualized as a persistent negative shock to lifetime utility that can be treated by pain relief medication. Some...
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An increase in the retirement age in China : the regional economic effects
Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2015
China?s pension system is in need of comprehensive reform in that it is fragmented in its coverage and significantly under-funded. Attempts to improve the coverage will likely exacerbate the financial strains. Thus it is urgent to improve the financial sustainability of the system and one policy...
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