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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258636
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Migration, Social Security, and Economic Growth
Chen, Hung-Ju; Fang, I-Hsiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper studies the effect of population aging on economic performance in an overlapping-generations model with international migration. Fertility is endogenized so that immigrants and natives can have different fertility rates. Fertility is an important determinant to the tax burden of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004215
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The policy relevance of absolute and relative poverty headcounts: What's in a number?
Notten, Geranda; de Neubourg, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619764
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Poverty in Europe and the USA: Exchanging official measurement methods
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them … Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) for the USA, we compare poverty trends in the USA and EU in relative and absolute terms on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790223
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Global imbalances: an unconventional view
Popov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Maintaining today’s global imbalances would help to overcome the major disproportion of our times – income gap between developed and developing countries. This gap was widening for 500 years and only now, in the recent 50 years, there are some signs that this gap is starting to decrease. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805852
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The Asian model: a crisis foretold
Singh, Ajit; Weisse, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Abstract The East Asian countries achieved extraordinarily fast economic growth during the last four decades. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to say that they represented the most successful case of rapid industrialisation and sustained economic growth in the history of mankind. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109046
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Evaluating the possible impact of pension reforms on future living standards in Europe
Grech, Aaron George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Successive reforms enacted since the 1990s have dramatically changed Europe’s pensions landscape. This paper tries to assess the impact of recent reforms on the ability of systems to alleviate poverty and maintain living standards, using estimates of pension wealth for a number of hypothetical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259058
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Aging population and public pensions: theory and evidence
Verbič, Miroslav; Spruk, Rok - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Rapidly aging population in high-income countries has exerted additional pressure on the sustainability of public pension expenditure. We present a formal model of public pension expenditure under endogenous human capital, where the latter facilitates a substantial decrease in equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259478
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Old age pensions in Mexico: Toward universal coverage
Willmore, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper chronicles the rise of social pensions in Mexico. First it summarizes the pension system prior to introduction of social pensions. Next it describes how Mexico City, the federal government, and seventeen of Mexico’s 31 states initiated social pensions, a policy supported eventually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260967
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A Life-Cycle Analysis of Social Security with Housing
Chen, Kaiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper incorporates two features of housing in a life-cycle analysis of social security: housing as a durable good and housing market frictions. We find that with housing as a durable good unfunded social security substantially crowds out housing consumption throughout the life cycle. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025746