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Child labor and resistance to change
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003
We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591883
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Education in a marriage market model without commitment
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse women's and men's incentives to invest in education. Once married, spouses bargain over their share of total household income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310256
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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...
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A classical model of education, growth and distribution
Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017
We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and...
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Education and "human capitalists" in a classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution
Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017
A simple classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution is developed in which education transforms low-skilled workers into high-skilled ones and in which high-skilled workers save and hold capital, therefore receiving both high-skilled wages and profit income. We analyze the implications...
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...
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(Re-)sources of innovation : understanding and comparing innovation dynamics through the lens of communities of practice
Müller, Felix C.; Ibert, Oliver - 2014
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Securing knowledge assets in the early phase of innovation
Herlau, Henrik (contributor); Tetzschner, Helge (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The cost of competitiveness of manufacturing in China and India : an industry and regional perspective
Ark, Bart van (contributor) - 2008
This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industrylevel competitiveness for the manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international perspective. We find that China has increased its labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781188
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The measurement of labour content : a general approach
Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013
This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...
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