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Divergence in labour force growth : should wages and prices grow faster in Germany?
Beissinger, Thomas; Hellier, Joël; Marczak, Martyna - 2020
We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...
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Wages, productivity and aging
Dostie, Benoît (contributor) - 2006
In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data … also depend on age. Results show concave age-wage and age-productivity profiles. Wage-productivity comparisons show that … the productivity of workers aged 55 and more with at least an undergraduate degree is lower than their wages. For other …
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Influence in economics and aging
Jelnov, Pavel; Weiss, Yoram - 2020
We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are not related to age but are related to experience. The optimal level of experience is 30 years from...
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Has China's growth gone from miracle to malady?
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2023
major financial or economic crash. With a shrinking labor force and declining efficiency of investment, raising productivity …
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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan and South Korea
Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017
China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …
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Income and population growth
Brückner, Markus; Schwandt, Hannes - 2013
Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by technological change. For a panel of over 139 countries spanning the period 1960-2007 we interact...
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Land reforms, status and population growth
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014
escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns … for their investments in land, encouraging them to increase their productivity of land rather than their family size. This … decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …
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Fertility, mortality and environmental policy
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2016
This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is produced from labor and capital by two sectors, dirty and clean. An emission tax curbs dirty production, which decreases pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to...
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Population growth and the tragedy of the commons : can trade prevent natural resource and welfare collapse?
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2024
Many developing countries depend crucially on open-access renewable natural resources (NR). Trade is generally viewed as hurting the long-term health of NR in commodity-exporting countries. I examine whether trade might be beneficial in the case of population growth. Dynamic general equilibrium...
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Does employee stock ownership work? : evidence from publicly-traded firms in Japan
Kato, Takao; Miyajima, Hideaki; Ōwan, Hideo - 2018
sample of publicly-traded firms in Japan (covering more than 75% of all firms listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange) over 1989 … per employee results in statistically significant productivity gains. Furthermore, such productivity gains are found to …-executive employees and stock option aimed at incentivizing executives. Finally the positive effects on productivity, profitability, wages …
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