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Disabled and Unmarried? Marital Chances Among Disabled People in Nineteenth-Century Northern Sweden

Essays in Economic and Business History, 2017
To marry and form a household of one’s own was the expected life course of most people in the nineteenth century, but little is known about whether individuals with disabilities shared the same demographic experience of marriage as non-disabled did. This
Helena Haage, Lotta Vikström, Erling Häggström Lundevaller   +2 more
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Regional Evidence regarding U.S. Residential Electricity Consumption [PDF]

Regional economic, demographic, and climatic data are used to analyze residential electricity demand in the United States. Results indicate that electricity is an inferior good for households in the United States.
Contreras, Sergio, Fullerton, Thomas M., Jr., Roth, Timothy P., Smith, Wm. Doyle   +3 more
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Understanding differences in regional poverty rates [PDF]

An examination of the huge variation in U.S. regional poverty rates, showing that although demographic, policy, and cost-of-living factors all play a role, economic differences are key.Income ; Regional ...
Elizabeth T. Powers, Max Dupuy
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AN OVERVIEW OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE SIZE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT [PDF]

This paper reviews many factors affecting the size of local government. These factors include: current demographic trends and changes in alternative service delivery arrangements, theoretical schools of thought, evidence on economies of size, whether ...
Honadle, Beth Walter, Trueblood, Michael A.   +1 more
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Untapped Potential: Gender and Regional Disparities in Working Life Expectancy and its Trends in Italy

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana
As societies globally cope with the challenges of an aging population, pension systems face increasing strain. Italy, one of Europe’s largest economies and oldest populations, provides a compelling case for examining the complex interplay between gender ...
Angelo Lorenti, Annalisa Busetta
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A SVECM Model of the UK Economy and The Term Premium [PDF]

The term premium is estimated from an empirically coherent open economy VAR model of the UK economy where the model speci?cally accounts for the mixed nature of the data and cointegration between some variables.
Dungey, Mardi, Tugrul Vehbi, M
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Volunteering and instrumental support during the first phase of the pandemic in Europe: the significance of COVID-19 exposure and stringent country’s COVID-19 policy

BMC Public Health
Background The COVID-19 control policies might negatively impact older adults’ participation in volunteer work, instrumental support provision, and the likelihood of receiving instrumental support.
Septi Kurnia Lestari, Malin Eriksson, Xavier de Luna, Gunnar Malmberg, Nawi Ng   +4 more
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Can investments in emerging markets help to solve the aging problem ? [PDF]

Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging of their populations.
Holzmann, Robert
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Systematic and Liquidity Risk in Subprime-Mortgage Backed Securities [PDF]

The misevaluation of risk in securitized ?nancial products is central to understand- ing the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008. This paper characterizes the evolution of factors a¤ecting collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) based on subprime mortgages.
Dungey, Mardi, Dwyer, Gerald P., Flavin, Thomas   +2 more
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'n Beroepstudie van ekonome en bedryfsekonome

South African Journal of Business Management, 1989
This paper first analyses the demographic data and training environment of South African university graduates in Economics and/or Business Economics on the basis of information extracted from the HSRC register of graduates.
C. J. Kroon, J. R. Raubenheimer
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