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for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …
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-to-death (TTD) effects on Long Term Care. We also account for the problem that mortality, and therefore TTD, are themselves …
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We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
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Die Bevölkerung in Deutschland wird in den nächsten Dekaden schrumpfen und altern. Die mittleren Varianten verschiedener Bevölkerungsprojektionen gehen von einem Rückgang um über 12 Millionen auf rund 70 Millionen Einwohner im Jahr 2050 aus. Das Medianalter in der Bevölkerung wird...
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Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...
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This paper argues that currently advanced, aging economies experienced a qualitative change in the role of public education during the process of industrialization. In the early phases of the Industrial Revolution, public education was regarded as a duty that regulated child labor and thereby...
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changes in fertility and mortality on the developed world's demographic transition. The model features three regions – the U ….S., Japan, and the EU-15 – and incorporates age- and time-specific fertility and mortality rates, detailed fiscal institutions … economic consequences of both higher fertility and lower mortality rates. The simulations indicate very minor effects on the …
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and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with … biosocial pathways playing an important role in shaping the fertility-health-nexus. Specifically, the Western German "male … breadwinner" model of specialisation appears to have buffered the stresses associated with childrearing, whereas fertility off the …
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changes and assesses the possible consequences of the changing fertility and mortality patterns. Much remains unknown about … demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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