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Bloom, David E. - 2016

Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...

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The Demography of Genocide

Kugler, Tadeusz - 2021

The demographic foundation of nations is remarkably resilient to losses with the causes of that resiliency not uniform cross-nationally. Countries in the early stages of development have very high birth rates and a growing youthful population with only the most extreme cases of genocide...

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Demography and age heaping : solving Ireland's post-famine digit preference puzzle

McLaughlin, Eoin; Colvin, Christopher L.; Henderson, Stuart - 2022

attainment improved. We show how demography can account for this seemingly conflicting pattern. Specifically, we argue that a …

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Endogenous longevity and optimal tax progressivity

Heer, Burkhard; Rohrbacher, Stefan - 2020

We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at the expense of lower average lifetime and lower...

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Factors of the income inequality in the Baltics : income, policy, demography

Navicke, Jekaterina - 2017

This paper aims to disentangle the driving factors behind the changes in income inequality in the Baltics since the EU accession, distinguishing between primary income effect, discrete changes in tax-benefit policies and demographic effect. Evaluation of the three effects was based on...

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Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, a behavioral approach

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2020

interests of the different groups are only partly coinciding. For a given demography and interest rate, the joint result of the … in the capital market with a corresponding equilibrium interest rate. In this paper we assume a demography with one … determined by the demography and cannot be modified at will as a long-term political instrument. We find that this is relevant …

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The demographic environment : notes on eight economic, social and cultural threats

Membiela-Pollán, Matías; Martínez Fernández, … - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 1 (2018) 1

This article aims to highlight eight implications presented by the demographic environment in the economic, social and cultural fields. More specifically, we will deal with how the ageing of the population, evident in the advanced countries, infers a set of threats related to: 1) The...

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A poor inquiry : poverty and living standards in pre-famine Ireland

Doran, Áine - 2021

This paper studies the relationship between pre-famine living conditions and famine severity. I digitise the parish-level returns of the Irish Poor Inquiry and use these to explain the co-variates of increasing poverty in the early nineteenth century and examine how they impacted the severity of...

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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019

This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...

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The impact of climate change on fertility

Casey, Gregory; Shayegh, Soheil; Moreno Cruz, Juan; … - 2019

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