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I enrich the findings according to which cultural proxies such as past total fertility rates in the country of origin … or number of siblings have a sizable effect on the fertility choice of second generation migrants. I use the TeO survey … that interviewed individuals established in France from different origins to investigate whether the effect of fertility …
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This paper studies the effect of population aging and international migration on economic performance. Fertility is … endogenized so that immigrants and natives can have different fertility rates, which provides a more realistic view of policy … effects. Fertility is an important determinant to the tax burden of social security since it affects the quantity and quality …
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The pension systems of Middle Eastern and the North African Arab Countries are facing several threats that will not only endanger their old-age benefit schemes in the foreseeable future, but will also deepen social conflicts. This article examines four groups of factors that reinforce one...
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
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This paper investigates the relationship between parenthood and well-being in a large sample of individuals from 94 countries worldwide. We find that having children is negatively related to well-being. Conditioning on economic and socio-demographic characteristics can only partially help to...
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characterized recent fertility trends in Russia. These were intrinsically interwoven with fundamental changes in all aspects of life … of young people in the 1990s and the 2000s. The past quarter century was also marked by concern with low fertility and … attempts to increase fertility in the early 1980s and the late 2000s. The family policies of the 1980s failed to raise …
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In most demographic transitions, declines in child mortality precede declines in net fertility rates. Variants of the … Barro–Becker model of fertility fail to deliver this link. A simple extension, the inclusion of social norms regarding … fertility, generates the desired effect. …
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fertility and longevity. For the former the smoothing argument may be appropriate, but not for the latter. In the case of …
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Men’s additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women’s higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …
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fertility rates. …
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