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Optimal taxation with capital accumulation and wage bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio K. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001876718
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Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving
Richter, Wolfram F. (contributor) - 2008
human and nonhuman capital investment ; power law of learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688797
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824853
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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900319
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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140124
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Rebalancing growth in Asia
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment …. -- Growth contributions ; national savings and investment ; current account balance ; welfare consequences of growth … growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879333
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On the commitment needs of partially naive agents
Liu, Pan; Andersen, Torben M.; Bhattacharya, Joydeep - 2020
Time-inconsistent, present-biased agents may hold commitment assets hoping to keep their current and future present bias in check. Paternalistic governments, in an effort to help such people, routinely offer commitment machinery such as restrictions (or bans) on early withdrawals from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203129
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The impact of wealth on job exit rates of elderly workers
Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor) - 2006
through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit rates. We find evidence for a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355646
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Out of sight, out of mind : migration, entrepreneurship and social capital
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2009
-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. -- Social capital ; entrepreneurship ; selection ; savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909683
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Efficient subsidization of human capital accumulation with overlapping generations and endogenous growth
Richter, Wolfram F.; Braun, Christoph - 2009
second best not to distort education if the human capital investment function is isoelastic. If the function is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926427