This paper builds a model of growth through industrialization, as machines replace workers in a growing number of tasks. This enables the economy to experience long-run growth, as machines become servants of humans, and as their number can grow unboundedly. The mechanism that drives growth is...

Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...

Intro -- THE MAINTENANCE CREW FOR THE HUMAN MACHINERY -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. THE SUBJECT AND HOW TO DORESEARCH ON IT -- 1. How Personnel Management Changed in theNetherlands -- 2. Research philosophy:The case for qualitative research -- PART II. THE HEART OF THE MATTERAN ESSAY ON...

In diesem Bericht werden die Zwischenergebnisse der Begleitforschung 2012 bis 2013 zum Modellvorhaben LandZukunft des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL) vorgestellt. Das Modellvorhaben läuft von 2012 bis Ende 2014 in vier aus ursprünglich 17 Landkreisen ausgewählten...