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Higher education and the fall and rise of inequality
Prettner, Klaus; Schaefer, Andreas - 2016
We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel overlapping generations model with three social classes: the rich, the middle class, and the poor. We show that there is an initial phase in which no social class invests in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439186
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Higher Education and The Fall and Rise of Inequality
Prettner, Klaus - 2016
We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel overlapping generations model with three social classes: the rich, the middle class, and the poor. We show that there is an initial phase in which no social class invests in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995928
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Higher education and the fall and rise of inequality
Prettner, Klaus; Schäfer, Andreas - 2016
We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel overlapping generations model with three social classes: the rich, the middle class, and the poor. We show that there is an initial phase in which no social class invests in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555100
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Declining fertility and economic well-being : do education and health ride to the rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537238
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Health and Economic Growth
Bloom, David E. - 2018
The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying mechanisms are complex and difficult to discern. Three issues are of central concern. First, assessing and disentangling causality between health and economic growth is empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906529
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Does democracy foster entrepreneurship?
Farè, Luca; Audretsch, David B.; Dejardin, Marcus - In: Small business economics : an international journal 61 (2023) 4, pp. 1461-1495
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014631489
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Tolerance and Innovation : The Role of Institutional and Social Trust
Seitz, Nikolaus - 2017
freedoms and tolerance. It is argued that tolerance is essential for innovation because its creates an open environment where … creativity and knowledge spillovers. However, mixed empirical evidence suggests that the relationship between tolerance and …-investigates whether and to which extent notions of social and institutional trust affect the impact of tolerance on innovation using an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957833
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Rising longevity, increasing the retirement age, and the consequences for knowledge-based long-run growth
Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We assess the long-run growth effects of rising longevity and increasing the retirement age when growth is driven by purposeful research and development. In contrast to economies in which growth depends on learning-by-doing spillovers, raising the retirement age fosters economic growth. How...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156427
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Have we oversold the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship?
Audretsch, David B. - In: Small business economics : an international journal 56 (2021) 2, pp. 849-856
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Medical innovation, life expectancy, and economic growth
Kuhn, Michael; Minniti, Antonio; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321634