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The greener, the higher : labor demand of automotive firms during the green transformation
Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024
We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...
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The circular economy
Fullerton, Don - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529224
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The economic consequences of rising US government debt: privileges at risk
Bohn, Henning - 2010
The rapidly growing federal government debt has become a concern for policy makers and the public. Yet the U.S. government has seemingly unbounded access to credit at low interest rates. Historically, Treasury yields have been below the growth rate of the economy. The paper examines the...
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Population aging, social security and fiscal limits
Heer, Burkhard; Polito, Vito; Wickens, Michael R. - 2018
We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper … welfare of a number of policies often advocated to improve the sustainability of pension systems. New tax data on dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864671
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Economic challenges in the Anthropocene
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy-environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223439
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Role of production networks in sustaining and rebalancing Asia's growth
Thorbecke, Willem; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012
In last few decades, Asian production networks have contributed significantly toward the rapid trade expansion and economic growth in East Asia. Developed Asia produces technology-intensive intermediate goods and capital goods and ships them to the People Republic of China (PRC) and ASEAN for...
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The sustainability of Chinese growth and the aggregate factor substitution elasticity
Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - 2012
We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … sustainability of high Chinese growth. -- China ; growth ; sustainability ; substitution elasticity …
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Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability : a taxonomy of assumptions and results
Asheim, Geir B. - 2002
This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability … combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results in welfare and sustainability accounting. The analysis illustrates how …
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To consolidate or not to consolidate? : a multi-step analysis to assess needed fiscal sustainability
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar - 2022
specifically on their degree of success, notably in terms of fiscal sustainability. The "need" to consolidate is based on having a … primary balance above or below the debt-stabilizing primary balance (provided by the IMF's Debt Sustainability Analysis) for … each country. We then link the need for and the actual (historical) existence of fiscal adjustments to their sustainability …
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Sustainability of an economy relying on two reproducible assets
Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2017
Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the … sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an … genuine savings and the sustainability prospects of future generations. …
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