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Poste̜p techniczny, zmiany strukturalne a rozwój gospodarczy Polski

Marciniak, Stefan - In: Nowe drogi : czasopismo społeczno-polityczne (1989), pp. 50-61

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Early Childcare Duration and Students' Later Outcomes in Europe

Boca, Daniela Del; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...

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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies

Ginsburgh, Victor - 2020

The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...

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Is Poland the Next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco - 2005

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both … Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …

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The Contribution of Human Capital and its Policies to Per Capita Income in Europe and the OECD

Égert, Balázs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2021

This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age...

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The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets : Implications for Immigration and Other Policies

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2006

The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of …

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Schooling, Wealth, Risky Sexual Behavior, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lucas, Adrienne M. - 2018

Economic growth and development have improved human health in many regions, while sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag behind. Economic theory and the existing empirical evidence suggest that development may not generate large reductions in the leading cause of adult mortality in the region,...

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Annuities and Individual Welfare

Davidoff, Thomas - 2003

This paper advances the theory of annuity demand. First, we derive sufficient conditions under which complete annuitization is optimal, showing that this well-known result holds true in a more general setting than in Yaari (1965). Specifically, when markets are complete, sufficient conditions...

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The Health of Nations : The Contribution of Improved Health to Living Standards

Nordhaus, William D. - 2002

Nations generally measure their economic performance using the yardstick of national output and income. It is not widely recognized, however, that conventional measures of national income and output exclude the value of improvements in the health status of the population. The present study...

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The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being

Blinder, Alan S. - 1980

This paper summarizes and critically evaluates what is known about postwar trends in both the level and distribution of economic well-being. Although certain non-income aspects of well-being are considered, the primary focus is on the level and inequality of income. Considerable attention is...

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