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Leaders’ Impact on Public Spending Priorities: The Case of the German Laender
Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
We examine determinants of the composition of public expenditure in the German Laender (states) over the period 1993–2008, as the Laender exhibit a high degree of institutional and political homogeneity and are endowed with extensive fiscal competences. Our prime contribution is an...
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Welfare-Induced Migration of the Elderly in Japan - Gender differences in welfare migration patterns among the elderly
Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
supporting the elderly at home. Thus, the elderly in Japan often want to move to municipalities that have a greater availability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010586201
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Linkage between Benefit Expenditure and Premium Burden: Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan
Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi; Sugahara, Kota; Kunizaki, Minoru - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
This study considers the discretionary premium-setting behavior of municipalities in the Japanese system of long … show that municipalities seem to have discretion in premium setting. Cities, in particular, set premiums low, reflecting … elderly political power. In addition, premiums are influenced elderly political power when few neighboring municipalities are …
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Long-term Care Insurance Facilities and Interregional Migration of the Elderly in Japan
Kawase, Akihiro; Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009
Using municipality-level data of Japan, this paper empirically examines how the capacity of long-term care insurance facilities impacts interregional migration of the elderly. We construct net-migration data of the elderly population in each municipality by combining statistics available from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552455
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The impact of market innovations on the evolution of norms: the sustainability case
Müller, Stephan; Wangenheim, Georg von - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...
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From Status-Seeking Consumption to Social Norms. An Application to the Consumption of Cleanliness
Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008
Interdependencies in consumer behavior stem from either status-seeking consumption or compliance with social norms. This paper analyzes how a consumption act changes from a means to signal the consumer’s status to a means of norm compliance. It is shown that such a transformation can only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765298
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How to generalize Darwinism suitably to help understand both the evolution and the development of economies
Pelikan, Pavel - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009
This paper agrees that a suitably generalized Darwinism may help understand socioeconomic change, but finds the most publicized generalization by Hodgson and Knudsen unsuitable. To do better, it generalizes the extension of Neo-Darwinism into evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo"),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765301
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Does education engender cultural values that matter for economic growth?
Bangwayo-Skeete, Prosper F.; Rahim, Afaf H.; Zikhali, … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009
Empirical research has shown that cultural values matter for economic growth and has specifically identified the achievement motivation as an aspect of culture that engenders economic growth. If specific cultural values engender economic growth, how then can societies promote them? This paper...
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What determines workers’ preferences for efficiency over equity wages?
Bangwayo-Skeete, Prosper F.; Rahim, Afaf H.; Zikhali, … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009
What makes workers consider it fair for wages to be indexed on job performance or efficiency? In this paper we attempt to answer this question using the 2005 wave of the World Values Survey data for 43 countries to investigate what socio-economic characteristics condition employees’ preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029287
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Product Quality in a Simple OLG Model of Scientific Competition
Albert, Max - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008
Using a simple OLG model where the research output of one generation provides inputs for the next, the paper explains how quality standards can become established in scientific competition. Researchers seek status, which they get if their results are used by the next generation. Quality is...
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