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Aging, inadequacy, and fiscal constraint : the case of Thailand

Phitawat Poonpolkul; Ponpoje Porapakkarm; Nada Wasi - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 35-67

We use an overlapping generations model to study the challenge in developing countries with a large informal sector and aging population. We use Thailand as a case study and incorporate its labor market structure and its public pension system into the calibrated model. Unlike developed...

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Cross-country differences in the long-run economic impacts of increased fertility

Davoine, Thomas - 2022

Higher fertility slowly increases the workers-to-retirees ratio over the long run, which can ease the pension financing …-productivity profiles and pension systems can explain the exception. Fertility-promoting policies will always ease the public finance …

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The dynamics of asymmetry among fertility, income inequality and financial development in Bangladesh

Husain, Humaira - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-9

This research studies the extent of asymmetric responses of general fertility rate with financial development and … distributed lag methodologies. Our study identifies a long run stable equilibrium among fertility rate, financial development and … income inequality under assumptions of symmetric and asymmetric relationships between fertility and each of the control …

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How do sources of carbon dioxide emissions affect life expectancy? : insights from 68 developing and emerging economies

Mahalik, Mantu Kumar; Thai-Ha Le; Le, Ha-Chi; Mallick, … - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-10

This study is possibly the first to investigate the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on life expectancy for 68 low- and middle-income countries for the 1990-2017 period. The analysis was carried out on a disaggregated basis on two dimensions: (1) the sources of CO2 emissions (i.e.,...

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Spousal spillovers in the labor market : a structural assessment

Galaasen, Sigurd Mølster; Kruse, Herman - 2024

We explore the importance and nature of elderly couples' labor market interlinkages, and how such linkages shape the response to welfare reforms. To this end, we build a life cycle model with dual-earner households, featuring heterogeneous age gaps, non-separable leisure preferences, and...

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The aggregate effects of government income transfers shocks : EU evidence

Párraga Rodríguez, Susana - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 1-28

This paper estimates the aggregate effects of government income transfers shocks for a sample of EU countries. I construct a new measure of transfers shocks based on a dataset by public finance experts of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). The identification strategy consists of a...

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The economic effects of providing legal status to dreamers

Ortega, Francesc; Edwards, Ryan D.; Hsin, Amy - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-28

This study quantifies the economic effects of two major immigration policies aimed at legalizing undocumented individuals that entered the United States as children and completed high school: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the DREAM Act. The former offers only temporary legal...

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Maternal education and children's well-being : evidence from four Pacific countries

Marshan, Joseph; Pritadrajati, Dyah - 2023

We study the relationship between maternal education and children's well-being in four Pacific countries. We exploit the richness of the Multiple Indicator Clustering Survey (MICS) dataset to investigate this relationship and its underlying mechanisms. We find that the number of years of...

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Analyzing how the social security reserve fund in Spain affects the sustainability of the pension system

Gómez-Déniz, Emilio; Pérez Rodríguez, Jorge V.; … - In: Risks : open access journal 10 (2022) 6, pp. 1-17

Faced with the need to adjust public pension systems to meet changing demographic, economic and social conditions, most developed countries have created government reserve funds to ensure macroeconomic sustainability. This paper aims to study the importance that this reserve fund plays in the...

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The welfare state and economic growth : econometric evidence from Germany

Reichel, Richard - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 3, pp. 343-360

This paper attempts to analyze the growth effects of social security expenditures in Germany from a time series perspective. Therefore, a regression model based on standard determinants of growth is specified and estimated as a vector error correction model. Results show that there is a...

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