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Optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging

Hostenkamp, Gisela (contributor); … - 2008

This paper develops a simple analytical framework in which optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging … timing of retirement, the size of lifecycle labour income and pension payments and investments in health that individuals … the traditionally separate areas of health and retirement policy can be coordinated to achieve dynamic efficiency. Under …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003722614

The health gradient and early retirement : evidence from the German Socio-economic Panel

Hostenkamp, Gisela (contributor); … - 2006

individual retirement behavior, using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We first estimate agegroup … predictions of the long-term impact of policies affecting the health gradient on workers' timing of retirement amid population …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003403467

Determinants of donor generosity : a survey of the aid budget literature

Fuchs, Andreas; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012

What determines the foreign aid effort of donor countries? We review the existing literature on donors’ aid budgets and examine which of the suggested variables robustly determine aid effort, measured as Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of gross national income. More...

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Learning by exporting : does it matter where one learns? ; Evidence from Colombian manufacturing plants

Trofimenko, Natalia (contributor) - 2005

Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through product quality upgrading. This study is based on the observation that the technological superiority and severity of product quality requirements are not the same in...

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Old Europe's social model : a reason of low growth? ; The case of Germany

Siebert, Horst (contributor) - 2006

This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...

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Deficiencies in the development of an Estonian welfare state

Schrader, Klaus; Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Reiljan, Janno - 2014

Estonia is widely regarded as a paramount example for a successful transformation of a socialist economic system to a functioning market economy. Against the backdrop of this positive image which contrasts strongly with the crisis scenarios in Southern Europe the remaining problems of Estonia...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384187

The impact of trade and economic growth on the environment : revisiting the cross-country evidence

Abdulai, Awudu; Kleemann, Linda - 2009

This paper explores the interrelations between economic growth, international trade and environmental degradation both theoretically and empirically. Panel data from developed and developing countries for the period of 1980 to 2003 is used and previous critique, especially on the econometric...

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Can carbon based import tariffs effectively reduce carbon emissions?

Hübler, Michael - 2009

We estimate CO2 implicitly contained in traded commodities based on the GTAP 7 data: While net carbon imports into the industrialized countries amount to 15% of their total emissions, net carbon exports of the developing countries amount to 12% of their total emissions, and net carbon exports of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929212

The ugly and the bad : banking and housing crises strangle output permanently, ordinary recessions do not

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Jannsen, Nils; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2010

This paper provides statistical evidence suggesting that in industrial countries, recessions that are associated with either banking crises or housing crises dampen output far more than ordinary recessions. Using a parametric panel framework that allows for a bounceback of the level of output in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932600

Emerging multinationals, international knowledge flows and economic geography : a research agenda

Dohse, Dirk; Hassink, Robert; Klaerding, Claudia - 2012

One of the most significant changes in the global economy today is the strong increase in outgoing foreign direct investment (OFDI) from emerging economies to industrialised countries. Whereas investment in less developed countries is often motivated by the sourcing of natural resources and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552305

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