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Reassessing the Demography Hypothesis: the Great Brazilian Crime Shift
Mello, João Manoel Pinho de - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 2010
Mimicking the US in 1980 and 1990s, Brazil is a remarkable case of a major shift in homicides. After increasing … steadily throughout the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, homicides reached a peak in 2003, and then fell. I show a strong … state in the country, and whose shift in homicides has been particularly acute. City-level panel elasticities are similar to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682903
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Age Structure Explaining a Large Shift in Homicides: The Case of the State of São Paulo
de Mello, João Manoel Pinho; Schneider, Alexandre - 2007
After reaching a historic peak by the end of the 1990s, homicides in large cities in the state of São Paulo dropped …-25 age bracket and homicides at the statewide and at city levels, and argue that the relationship is causal. We estimate that … a 1% increase in the proportion of 15-to-24-year-old males causes a 4.5% increase in homicides. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807373
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Reassessing the Demography Hypothesis: the Great Brazilian Crime Shift
Mello, João M. P. De - 2010
Mimicking the US in 1980 and 1990s, Brazil is a remarkable case of a major shift in homicides. After increasing … steadily throughout the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, homicides reached a peak in 2003, and then fell. I show a strong … state in the country, and whose shift in homicides has been particularly acute. City-level panel elasticities are similar to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807403
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The Global Impact of Demographic Change
Callen, Tim; McKibbin, Warwick J.; Batini, Nicoletta - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper examines the implications of such transition over the next 80 years for Japan, the United States, other industrial countries, and the developing regions of the world using a dynamic intertemporal general equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826038
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Demographic Change in Asia; The Impacton Optimal National Saving, Investment, and the Current Account
McDonald, Ian; Bésanger, Serge; Guest, Ross - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian economies—Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines—for the period 1997–2050 using a simulation approach. These calculations show the sensitivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826103
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The Demographic Dividend; Evidence From the Indian States
Mody, Ashoka; Aiyar, Shekhar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Large cohorts of young adults are poised to add to the working-age population of developing economies. Despite much interest in the consequent growth dividend, the size and circumstances of the potential gains remain under-explored. This study makes progress by focusing on India, which will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876597
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Economic Aspects of Population Ageing in Developed Countries
Smrčka, Luboš; Arltová, Markéta - In: Politická ekonomie 2012 (2012) 1, pp. 113-132
The issue of ageing is usually understood as a cultural and social problem in the developed countries. When addressed by economists, demographic questions are most frequently related to the pension reform or to the costs of healthcare. However, the effects of demographic change on productivity...
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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271339
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The Role of Demographics in Precipitating Crises in Financial Institutions
Macunovich, Diane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565208
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Migration From the New European Union Member States to the United Kingdom
Iakova, Dora M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The United Kingdom allowed workers from the ten new European Union member countries immediate access to its labor market after the accession in 2004. This paper uses a general equilibrium framework to explore the dynamic adjustment of the UK economy to the postaccession surge in immigration....
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