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A microfounded sectoral model for open economies
Plasmans, Joseph E. J. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499575
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Top-down versus bottom-up macroeconomics
De Grauwe, Paul - 2010
I distinguish two types of macroeconomic models. The first type are top-down models in which some or all agents are capable of understanding the whole picture and use this superior information to determine their optimal plans. The second type are bottom-up models in which all agents experience...
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A microfoundation of predator-prey dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2003
Predator-prey relationships account for an important part of all interactions between species. In this paper we provide a microfoundation for such predator-prey relations in a food chain. Basic entities of our analysis are representative organisms of species modelled similar to economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507918
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A micro-level 'consumer approach' to species population dynamics
Christiaans, Thomas (contributor);  … - 2005
In this paper we develop a micro ecosystem model whose basic entities are representative organisms which behave as if maximizing their net offspring under constraints. Net offspring is increasing in prey biomass intake, declining in the loss of own biomass to predators and Allee's Law applies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003120634
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The weak rationality principle in economics
Kirchgässner, Gebhard (contributor) - 2005
The weak rationality principle is not an empirical statement but a heuristic rule of how to proceed in social sciences. It is a necessary ingredient of any ‘understanding’ social science in the Weberian sense. In this paper, first this principle and its role in economic theorizing is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002730896
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Immigration and the slope of the labor demand curve : the role of firm heterogeneity in a model of regional labor markets
Ariu, Andrea; Müller, Tobias; Nguyen, Tuan - 2023
natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … is halved when the across-firm and across-region reallocation mechanisms are at work. Finally, both theory and … but skill-biased on aggregate, skilled immigration can increase absolute and relative skilled wages. Therefore, firm …
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
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Educational and wage risk : social insurance vs. quality of education
Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008
In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring the present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is...
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Low skill but high volatility?
Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009
-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand … for the years 1970 - 2004, we document how the volatility of hours worked and of wages of workers at different skill …
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Social security incidence under uncertainty assessing Italian reforms
Geron, Devis - 2009
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of the Italian social security system in an economy with uncertainty on wages … risk diversification across working-life wages in computing benefits. -- social security reforms ; uncertainty ; risk …
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