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We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from 1996 to 2012. To this we scrutinize both a direct and an indirect effect of aging on unemployment. The direct effect includes a decomposition of the East German unemployment rate...
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This study examines the impact of population growth on the economic growth of African countries using panel data approach from 1980 -2015. The impact of population growth on economic growth is still largely controversial at national and regional levels. The study used annual secondary data of...
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The changing population dynamics have substantial impact on economy. This paper investigates the effects of demographic change on economic growth. The share of working age population, child dependency ratio, old-age dependency ratio and age dependency ratio are used as demographic variables. The...
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properties in a simulation study. In an empirical application, we test whether labor displacement effects of robots are stronger … between robots and employment and may prematurely reject a null hypothesis about interaction effects in the presence of …
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Based on the expectation that the intensified use of robots contributes to the growth of labour productivity, this …. The empirical results for the models pooling all available data confirm that stocks of robots per 1 million Euros non …, the model is used to assess the impact of an increase of robots use on the labour productivity in each of the 9 …
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Our study represents a first attempt to single out the effects of aging on the entire structure of the economy that is approximated by employment shares in different sectors. We find that even after controlling for the effects of other relevant factors - e.g. income per capita, share of trade in...
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In this study, we investigate whether population aging influences employment shares in different economic sectors. To this end, we employ dynamic panel data analysis. Our unbalanced data set comprises 54 countries and extends to a maximum time period from 1970 till 2004. Our results suggest that...
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