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Vollmer, Sebastian; Holzmann, Hajo; Weisbrod, Julian - 2010

We analyze the cross-national distribution of GDP per capita and its evolution from 1970 to 2003. We argue that peaks are not a suitable measure for distinct growth regimes, because the number of peaks is not invariant under strictly monotonic transformations of the data (e.g. original vs. log...

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Patience and prosperity

Strulik, Holger - 2009

adjustment dynamics in line with the historical facts on savings and economic growth in Europe from the High Middle Ages to today …

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Critical Remarks on Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-first Century'

Homburg, Stefan - 2014

This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.

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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? A comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014

new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe. Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …

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Sugar market policies in the EU and international sugar trade : a study commissioned and partially funded by CIUS - The Association of European Sugar Users (cius.org)

Berger, Jurij; Brümmer, Bernhard; Fiankor, Dela-Dem; … - 2021

In the EU, the 2017/18 sugar marketing year (MY) was the first with no production quota and most of the price support gone. The Uruguay round restrictions on sugar exports were also not binding anymore, making the EU a net exporter. In MY2018/19 the EU turned back into a net importer as domestic...

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Subjective economic well-being in Eastern Europe

Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - 2002

This paper analyses subjective economic well-being in several Eastern European countries from 1991 to 1995. Economic well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered logit model, the determinants of subjective economic...

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A bioeconomic foundation of the Malthusian equilibrium : body size and population size in the long-run

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2007

This paper develops a bioeconomic Malthusian growth model. By integrating recent research on allometric scaling, energy consumption and ontogenetic growth, we provide a model where subsistence consumption is endogenously linked to body size and fertility. The theory admits a unique Malthusian...

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A bioeconomic foundation for the nutrition-based efficiency wage model

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2008

Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model....

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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2007

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in the German state of Hessen to measure the...

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Arbeitslosigkeit und zweitbeste Steuer-Transfer-Systeme

Homburg, Stefan - 2002

Die anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit hat verstärkt zu Diskussionen geführt, ob das Steuer-Transfer-System hierfür mitverantwortlich sei. Dabei wurde insbesondere auf die sehr hohe implizite Grenzbelastung im untersten Einkommensbereich hingewiesen. Als Alternativen wurden eine negative...

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