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insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
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Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for economic development, the Neoclassical...
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This study investigates the general equilibrium effects of a fertility shock under different intergenerational transfer schemes. The effects on lifetime income and utility for different generations, as well as the effects on factor prices, are analyzed in a three-period overlapping generations...
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ability, and the choice of education is determined endogenously. Job opportunities in an informal sector are available only to … workers who choose not to acquire higher education. We find that increased punishment of informal activities increases the …
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A company’s intellectual capital consists of a set of various non-physical sources of value, such as employee competencies, stakeholder relationships and patents. This paper examines the relationship between intellectual capital and productivity at company-level. It is based on a conceptual...
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