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Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth : Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Trends in Population?
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2005
The 19th century economist, Thomas Robert Malthus, hypothesized that the long-run supply of labor is completely elastic at a fixed wage-income level because population growth tends to outstrip real output growth. Dynamic equilibrium with constant income and population is achieved through...
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The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development : A Human Capital Perspective
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2004
inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures -- family-income inequality …, income-group inequality, and the Gini coefficient. In this context, we also reexamine the "Kuznets hypothesis" concerning the … relation between income growth and inequality …
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The journey of humanity : die Reise der Menschheit durch die Jahrtausende : über die Entstehung von Wohlstand und Ungleichheit
Galor, Oded - 2022 - Deutschsprachige Ausgabe
Über Jahrtausende hinweg entsprach der Lebensstandard fast aller Menschen weltweit mehr oder weniger dem Existenzminimum, bis er Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts drastisch anstieg. Viele Nationen genießen heute beispiellosen Wohlstand, andere haben den Sprung aus der wirtschaftlichen Stagnation noch...
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