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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity was conducive long-run reproductive success within the human species. Exploiting an extensive genealogy record for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the study traces the...
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La demografia dell’Italia e delle Regioni italiane. Uno sguardo alle proiezioni a medio-lungo termine
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The demographic database of Istat (www.istat.it)is explored and the main facts are extracted and described, both at the aggregate national level as well as at the regional one. This paper is completely self-standing but, at the same time, poses the basis for a more general analysis that will be...
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La demografia in Europa e in Us. Uno sguardo alle proiezioni a medio-lungo termine
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...
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Il Pay-as-You-Go in Europa attraverso i Programmi di Stabilità. Le risorse che gli attivi/occupati dovranno mettere a disposizione per finanziare il welfare
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Mid-long term projections of the Stability Programs (SP) are elaborated to simulate the burden each active citizen or each worker will have to bear for financing, via pay-as-you-go, public health care provisions and public pensions. It is worth mentioning that projections in the (SP) are those...
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Faith-inspired Health Care Provision in Ghana: Market Share, Reach to the Poor, and Performance
Olivier, Jill; Shojo, Mari; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
services provided by faith-inspired health care providers in Ghana, asking: (1) what is the market share of faith …
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is … that the best policy responses vary across African countries (depending on their levels of development, endowments … both elusive and expensive. Policy makers should therefore identify and execute strategies that balance development …
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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of transaction costs on economic welfare and development. We extend the static model of …-run level of development, and may arrest development completely in the extreme case. We also discuss the role of information …
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Public health services and health care utilization in Viet Nam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The main objectives of this paper are to review policies on health services and to provide an assessment of public health facilities and the access of people to health care services in Vietnam. Medical facilities and staffs in public establishments have been increasing. Health insurance has been...
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Better Health and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) from a global, regional and local economic perspective
Eberhard, Birgid; Fachinger, Uwe; Henke, Klaus-Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
with the development, promotion and organization of so-called senior-friendly environments and with ambient assisted living …
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Technology Convergence and Digital Divides. A Country-Level Evidence for the Period 2000-2010
Lechman, Ewa - 2015
The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
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