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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zoneʺ where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxianʺ zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

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German works councils old and new : incidence, coverage and determinants

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

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Threshold values in german labor law and job dynamics in small firms : the case of the disability law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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Works councils - sand or grease in the operation of German firms?

Schank, Thorsten - 2002

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Establishment age and wages : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Kölling, Arnd - 2002

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The complexity of economic policy : I. restricted local optima in tax policy design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

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The economics of human cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone's income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Information technology and the knowledge elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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Economic aspects of human cloning and reprogenetics

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

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Cognitive ability and paternalism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

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