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Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Decomposing the differences in healthy life expectancy between migrants and natives: the ‘healthy migrant effect’ and its age variations in Australia
Whether the ‘healthy migrant effect’ exhibits different patterns in mortality and morbidity and how such patterns change during the life course have not been adequately understood in the literature. Using the ...
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Open AccessThe effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in 27 countries
The expected year-on-year intrinsic mortality variations/changes are largely overlooked in the existing research when estimating the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality patterns. To fill this gap, thi...
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Open AccessHow education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Since vaccination is the decisive factor for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand the process of vaccination success which is not well understood on a global level. The study is the...
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Walls and Fences: A Journey Through History and Economics
Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The...
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Book and Living Reference Work (Continuously updated edition)
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Klaus F. Zimmermann Recommends “Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being” by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton
Economists explain individual behavior by market prices, total income, and preferences through a utility evaluation of alternative actions. A new research agenda adds an identity variable that depends on the i...
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Fading hope and the rise in inequality in the United States
A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in Western industrial countries such as the United States (US) would lead to increasing tensions between different so...
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Demographic dynamics and long-run development: insights for the secular stagnation debate
This paper takes a global, long-run perspective on the recent debate about secular stagnation, which has so far mainly focused on the short term. The analysis is motivated by observing the interplay between th...
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Erratum to: Three decades of publishing research in population economics
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Editorial: 30 Years Journal of Population Economics
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Halting Support for the EU
The stark reality is that the EU, in its present form, is unlikely to survive the next 10–25 years. The EU of today, which provides for long-term peace and prosperity, faces an existential threat linked to rec...
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A Vibrant European Model
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario “vibrant.” It is contras...
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Three decades of publishing research in population economics
The Journal of Population Economics is celebrating its 30th birthday. When the first issue was published, population economics was non-existent as a field. Hence, the aim has been to provide a high-quality outlet...
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Health shocks and well-being
Well-being is the ultimate objective of any labour movement. For long, efforts have concentrated on the provision of jobs and decent work conditions. Recently, however, labour economics has been focussing on h...
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Migration 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
Almost a decade has passed since the Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) in 2004. Germany has been a special case among the old member states of the EU for at least two reasons. First, the country r...
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Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants During the Crisis
Eastern enlargements of the European Union to eight Central and Eastern European countries (EU8) together with Cyprus and Malta in 2004 and Romania and Bulgaria (EU2) in 2007 were unprecedented in many aspects...
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The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment
The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) in 2004, 2007 and 2013 created a labor market with more than half a billion people, third only to India and China in terms of population size and matched onl...
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EU Post-enlargement Migration and the Great Recession: Lessons and Policy Implications
Following a century scarred by the frontlines and atrocities of two World Wars and a split by the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, the demise of Communist rule in Central Eastern Europe followed by integratio...
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Flüchtlinge in Deutschland: Herausforderung und Chancen
Vom Flüchtlingszustrom erhoffen sich viele vor allem eine Linderung des Fachkräftemangels und eine Entlastung der sozialen Systeme. Die Integration der Flüchtlinge sollte also nicht als „Belastung“, sondern al...
