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Gerontocracy, retirement, and social security

Mulligan, Casey B.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

programs with retirement incentives are larger and that the old are more "single-minded" in their politics, implications which …

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Malthusian dynamism and the rise of Europe: Make war, not love

Voth, Joachim; Voigtländer, Nico - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

and fertility schedules can lead to different steady-state income levels, with long periods of growth during the …

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Human capital distribution, growth and convergence

Guaitoli, Danilo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between distribution and endogenous growth in an overlapping generations … per capita growth rates and inequality in the distribution of income. Family background effects and spillovers in the … stability of a constant growth equilibrium with a stationary distribution are derived. Increasing returns, idiosyncratic …

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Quantifying quantitative literacy: Age heaping and the history of human capital

A'Hearn, Brian; Baten, Jörg; Crayen, Dorothee - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

Age data frequently display excess frequencies at round or attractive ages, such as even numbers and multiples of five. This phenomenon of age heaping has been viewed as a problem in previous research, especially in demography and epidemiology. We see it as an opportunity and propose its use as...

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Human capital, the structure of production and growth

Ciccone, Antonio; Papaioannou, Elias - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005

Do high levels of human capital foster economic growth by facilitating technology adoption? If so, countries with more …. High human capital levels should therefore have translated into fast growth in more compared to less human … determinant of growth in human-capital-intensive industries. Using data for a large sample of countries, we find significant …

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Informal care and labour force participation among middle-aged women in Spain

Casado, David; Gómez, Pilar García; López, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007

Informal care is today the form of support most commonly used by those who need other people in order to carry out certain activities that are considered basic (eating, dressing, taking a shower, etc.), in Spain and in most other countries in the region. The possible labour opportunity costs...

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The effects of a universal child benefit

Luna, Libertad González - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...

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Clusters of entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries …

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Is altruism important for understanding the long-run effects of social security?

Fuster, Luisa - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997

This paper quantifies the effects of social security on capital accumulation and wealth distribution in a life cycle framework with altruistic individuals. The main findings of this paper are that the current U.S. social security system has a significant impact on capital accumulation and wealth...

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How do very open economies adjust to large immigration flows? Recent evidence from Spanish regions

Luna, Libertad González; Ortega, Francesc - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007

In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish provinces with above-median inflows (relative to population), immigration increased by 24% the...

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