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Demographic Change and Climate Change
Rauscher, Michael - 2019
The paper uses a continuous-time overlapping-generations model with endogenous growth and pollution accumulation over time to study the link between longevity and global warming. It is seen that increasing longevity accelerates climate change in a business-as-usual scenario without climate...
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Creativity Over Time and Space - a Historical Analysis of European Cities
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
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The Role of Volunteers in German Refugee Crisis and Their Contribution to the Local Government Expenditure
Nam, Chang Woon - 2019
This study deals with a specific volunteering aspect revealed in the German refugee crisis 2015/16. German federalism prescribing interjurisdictional assignments of tasks for designing, financing and implementing services for refugees and their geographic distribution have made municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892233
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International trade and cultural diversity : a model of preference selection
Bala, Vankatesh; Long, Ngo Van - 2004
provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …
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Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe
Tabellini, Guido - 2005
Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …
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Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor : Global Evidence
Cao, Yiming; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2022
According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308100
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Should Pensions Be Progressive? Yes, at Least In Germany!
Fehr, Hans - 2011
Recent reforms that aim at reducing the upcoming burdens of population aging might seriously harm low income individuals. An increase in old-age poverty and disability will be the result. Under this prospect, the present paper quantitatively characterizes the optimal progressivity of unfunded...
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Aging and Health Care Expenditures : A Non-Parametric Approach
Lorenz, Normann - 2020
One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the population in most OECD countries will place an additional burden on the tax payers who finance public health care systems. Proponents of the "red-herring hypothesis" argue that...
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Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in Aging Populations
Comertpay, Rana - 2019
This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889685
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The 'Red Herring' after 20 Years : Ageing and Health Care Expenditures
Breyer, Friedrich - 2019
20 years ago, Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999) established the by now famous "red-herring" hypothesis, according to which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed positive correlation between age and health care expenditures...
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