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Crescita economica, conoscenza e capitale umano. Le teorie e i modelli di crescita endogena di Paul Romer e Robert Lucas
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper I will examine the growth models of Romer (1986) and Lucas (1988) which constitute an important first core to the endogenous growth theory, in order to understand the characteristics, to highlight the relationship between knowledge and economic growth and / or emphasize the...
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Estimation of Internal Migration in India, 2011 Census based on Life Table Survival Ratio (LTSR) Method
Mistri, Avijit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This study estimates the internal migration in India in the Census 2011 with help of Life Table Survival Ratio (LTSR) method, when the direct information related to the migrants is not available. Abridge Life Tables of Indian States and age specific population in two successive Census 2001 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130317
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Effects of Agricultural Productivity Shocks on Female Labor Supply: Evidence from the Boll Weevil Plague in the US South
Ager, Philipp; Brückner, Markus; Herz, Benedikt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In the beginning of the 1890s, counties located in the Cotton Belt of the American South were hit by an agricultural plague, the boll weevil, that adversely affected cotton production and hence the demand for labor. We use variation in the incidence of the boll weevil multiplied with counties’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107288
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New Forms of Employment and the Social Security System: The Case of Germany
Fachinger, Uwe; UF - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of the study is to analyse the consequences of the changing structure of the labour market for the social security system. It will be shown that in the future the restructuring of the labour force will yield a main challenge for social policy and will have much bigger consequences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530720
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A global view on demographic pressure and labour market participation
Groot, Loek; Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151574
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Sviluppo economico e occupazione
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
The economic development has become crucial in the debate among economists and, more generally, of all those who deal with today's problems of the economies of various countries, characterized by the globalization of markets, where employment and the related matters concerning the labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108469
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The Governance of Knowledge: Perspectives from Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia
Purwaningrum, Farah; Evers, Hans-Dieter; Ariff Lim, Syamimi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper revisits the concept of knowledge governance by drawing on the experience of building knowledge clusters in two countries; Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam. It explores the strategies by which a country may take up the governance of knowledge, in the context of avoiding the knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110407
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Revisiting Health and Income Inequality Relationship:Evidence from Developing Countries
Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In general, countries with more equal income distribution generally enjoy better health. Earlier empirical studies on … the relationship between income distribution and health at country level present strong evidence that income inequality on … an average impedes the improvement of population health. However, a majority of these empirical studies are based on data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109706
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Hofstede, Schwartz, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
However much we appreciate the enormous scientific contribution by Professor Ronald Inglehart, who initiated the international data collection of the World Values Survey, our re-analysis of the very World Values Survey data [“roll-outs” of the World Values Survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274385
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Hofstede, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
However much we appreciate the enormous scientific contribution by Professor Ronald Inglehart, who initiated the international data collection of the World Values Survey, our re-analysis of the very World Values Survey data [“roll-outs” of the World Values Survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275133