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Der Bruch der Theorie in der Praxis durch Not

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Some Remarks on Lujo Brentano's View of Labor Market Problems Lujo Brentano (1844-1931) aimed for "realism" in economics. Regarding labor market theory, two topics are of particular interest: His investigations on "Hours and Wages in Relation to Production" (Scribner's 1894) and his analysis "On...

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Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007

Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...

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Fertility Rates and Skill Distribution in Razin and Sadka's Migration-Pension Model: A Note

Krieger, Tim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Razin and Sadka (1999) show that unskilled immigration is beneficial to all income and all age groups in society, even if immigrants are net beneficiaries of the welfare system. Among other things, this result rests on the assumptions that immigrants have the same reproduction rate as the native...

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Insecure old-age security

Jellal, Mohamed; wolff, François charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

precautionary motive for the demand for children so that fertility of prudent parents is expected to increase. …

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Contraceptive supply and fertility outcomes: evidence from Ghana

Jones, Kelly M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Total fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are nearly double that of any other region in the world. Evidence is mixed … on whether providing contraceptives has an impact on fertility. I exploit exogenous, intermittent reductions in … poor women experience increases in realized fertility of 7-10%. …

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Relationship of Income Inequality and Labor Productivity on Fertility in the Philippines: 1985-2009.

Macan, Vaneza Jean; Deluna, Roperto Jr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

(output per capita) on fertility rate in the Philippines. Specifically, this presents the trend of income inequality (ineq …), labor productivity (lp) and fertility(tfr) in the Philippines from 1985 to 2009. The study uses Ordinary Least Square (OLS … negative relationship with fertility. Hence, an increase in this variable decreases fertility rate. This means that income …

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Child Labour and Inequality

Fioroni, Tamara; D'Alessandro, Simone - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two … labour and fertility decisions. Furthermore, we investigate how child labour regulation policies can influence the welfare of …

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Family Planning Policy in China: Measurement and Impact on Fertility

Wang, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … measure estimates the effect of policy on fertility and generates negative regression coefficients that well reproduce the … history. As for the contribution of the policy to fertility transition, the measure explains a sizable level shift of …

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De novo acerca da sazonalidade nos nascimentos em Portugal

Caleiro, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Portugal is characterized by a huge decline in the birth rate, which is a phenomenon that requires - or rather, should already have requested - some kind of intervention, given the consequent costs, including economic, poli- tical and social ones. Despite the evident downward trend in the birth...

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Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights

Tamura, Robert; Simon, Curtis; Murphy, Kevin M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new estimates of the benets of equal education opportunity for blacks over the period 1820-2000. For the better part of US history, blacks have enjoyed less access to schooling for their children than whites. This paper attempts to quantify the value of this discrimination....

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