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Human capital externalities and the urban wage premium: two literatures and their interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Südekum, Jens - 2008
economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268714
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Shifting Perspectives in Pensions
Góra, Marek; Palmer, Edward - 2004
This paper addresses the questions of what is an economically efficient pension system, what are the externalities and … conclusion is that NDC is neutral in terms of externalities. It manages the risks and eliminates the negative externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262119
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Beware of Workaholics : Household Preferences and Individual Equilibrium Utility
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2005
individual preferences and enjoy positive leisure-dependent externalities. For instance, a global sociological change where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262216
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Why should state government invest in college education? An equilibrium approach for the US in 2000
Shields, Michael P. - 2008
the existence of these positive externalities for the US in 2000 in estimates using the Current Population Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268729
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Human capital externalities with monopsonistic competition
Kaas, Leo - 2008
This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268776
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Market distortions and local indeterminacy: A general approach
Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor; Seegmuller, Thomas - 2011
We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are particular cases of our framework. Comparing them we obtain several equivalence results in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278392
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Peaceful coexistence? The role of religious schools and NGOs in the growth of female secondary schooling in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012
BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for their effectiveness in closing gender gap in primary school enrolment. On the other hand,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291435
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Sweden's pensioners: how they have fared in the roller coaster ride through the past decade and a half of deep recession and economic exuberance
Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2007
This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268905
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The financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden
Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269001
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If Seebohm Rowntree had studied Sweden: How poverty changed in the city of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003
Gustafsson, Björn; Jansson, Birgitta - 2010
This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … of present-day Sweden: the dual earner system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269843