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The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Südekum, Jens - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.

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Discounting in the presence of scarce ecosystem services

Zhu, Xueqin; Smulders, Sjak; Zeeuw, Aart de - 2019

Discounting has to take account of ecosystem services in consumption and production. Previous literature focuses on the first aspect and shows the importance of the relative price effect, for given growth rates of consumption and ecosystem services. This paper focuses on intermediate ecosystem...

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Pension systems, ageing and the stability and growth pact

Beetsma, Roel (contributor); Oksanen, Heikki (contributor) - 2007

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Collective labor supply of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2009

We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....

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Immigration, fertility, and human capital : a model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …

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Strategic housing policy, migration and sorting around population thresholds

De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2015

exogenously imposed population thresholds leading to an increased number and/or remuneration of local office-holders. Using data … population growth through policy measures aimed at stimulating net in-migration when approaching important population thresholds … election cycle to maximize population growth just before the 'deadline' to surpass a population threshold - act as a key …

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Modeling uncertainty in climate change : a multi-model comparison

Gillingham, Kenneth; Nordhaus, William D.; Anthoff, David; … - 2015

using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks at model and parametric uncertainties for population, total …

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On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks

Millner, Antony - 2013

which population size changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with …

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A microfoundation of predator-prey dynamics

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2003

acquired by the representative organism in the short term determines the positive or negative population growth. Moving short …-run equilibria constitute the dynamics of the predator-prey relations that are characterized in numerical analysis. The population …

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The lifecycle of the 47%

Fullerton, Don; Rao, Nirupama - 2016

We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...

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