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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and the evolution of societies from an epoch of stagnation to sustained economic growth. …
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of … economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting …
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752232
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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761761
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Social Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated...
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Evidence for a ‘Midlife Crisis’ in Great Apes Consistent with the U-Shape in Human Well-Being
Weiss, Alexander; King, James E.; Inoue-Murayama, Miho; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in...
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How Darwinian Should an Economy Be?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by which more successful firms are replicated at a higher rate. The structure of the model allows to characterize analytically the aggregate dynamics, and to compute the effect on...
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Hedonic Capital
Graham, Liam; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper proposes a new way to think about happiness. It distinguishes between stocks and flows. Central to the analysis is a concept we call ‘hedonic capital’. The paper sets out a model of the dynamics of wellbeing in which bad life-shocks are smoothed by the drawing down of hedonic...
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