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Demography: chicken or egg?
"Demographie: Huhn oder Ei?"
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Abstract
"This article analyses the demographic matrix of France since the end of World War 2. We first show the fundamental character of the demographic variable for explaining economic growth. The importance of the youngest cohort, and hence fertility, is shown for the economic dynamic. This is followed by... view more
"This article analyses the demographic matrix of France since the end of World War 2. We first show the fundamental character of the demographic variable for explaining economic growth. The importance of the youngest cohort, and hence fertility, is shown for the economic dynamic. This is followed by verification that the underlying mechanism of this link is founded on Easterlin's hypothesis, that is to say the labour market situation." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
birth trend; demographic factors; economic growth; France; demography; population development; causality; labor market
Classification
Population Studies, Sociology of Population
Political Economy
Method
empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 364-380
Journal
Historical Social Research, 33 (2008) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.33.2008.1.364-380
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed