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I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …
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"-that is, a relatively large share of the working-age population in the total population (WAPS). Currently, this dividend is … factors such as population size, WAPS, migration, and education. The results lend little support to the view that an expanding …
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Rapid technological progress poses challenges for labor markets. Automation can both displace and create jobs. Currently, an unprecedented digitalization of our economy is underway. Artificial intelligence has become a reality and machines are able to learn how to outperform humans in some...
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population groups must also be attracted to gainful employment and automation must be promoted. …
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Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more likely to work in relatively stable and countercyclical...
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Advanced economies will face population decline in the years and decades to come, particularly among those of working … structural population shocks by using lagged births as external instruments for working-age population inflows and outflows, and …, population decline quickly passes through to the labor market, translating into swifter disinvestment and decline in employment …
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The Western Balkans is experiencing an ongoing inflow of foreign direct investments (FDI) in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry as several European enterprises have already established their presence in the region. These inflows have generated large-scale ICT...
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This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...
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Population size and structure in conjunction with the participation behavior are the determinants of labor supply …. Thereby, among the demographic components, migration is the one shaping both the size and the structure of a population the … approaches that jointly address population and labor force participation are sparse and do neither account for differences in …
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