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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion

Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005

Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …

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Demographic effects on the German labour supply : a decomposition analysis

Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris; Weber, Brigitte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"Forecasts show a substantially decreasing and ageing labour force in Germany. This paper provides a decomposition of the projected change in the overall labour force into three parts. The first, called the 'demographic component', shows the effects of fertility, mortality and a changing age...

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Einflussfaktoren auf das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial : Demografie und Erwerbsverhalten in Ost- und Westdeutschland

Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

"This paper provides a decomposition of the projected change in the overall labour force in East and West Germany into three parts. The first, called the 'demographic component', shows the effects of fertility, mortality and a changing age structure of the population. The second effect is the...

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Einflussfaktoren auf das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial : Demografie und Erwerbsverhalten in Ost- und Westdeutschland

Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

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Demographic effects on the German labour supply : a decomposition analysis

Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris; Weber, Brigitte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004

We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...

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CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro; Celaya, Diana - EconWPA - 2004

institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …

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The Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions in the Process of Development

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2005

distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …

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EFFICIENCY OF INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL STABILITY AND INCOME DYNAMICS

Carmignani, Fabrizio - EconWPA - 2005

In a simple theoretical framework, the quality of institutions affects individual’s investment decisions, and hence … income levels and distribution. When institutions deteriorates and inequalities increase, the incumbent undertakes … redistributive taxation to maintain political support. The quality of institutions and the extent of redistribution depend on the …

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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA

Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002

This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state-level per capita income and poverty rates. I define the...

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