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Europe's long-term growth prospects : with and without structural reforms
McQuinn, Kieran; Whelan, Karl - 2015
Even before the financial crisis of 2007/08, there were significant questions about Europe's long-term growth prospects …. After a long period of catching up with US levels of labour productivity, euro area productivity growth had, from the mid … declining rates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth and weaker capital accumulation as areas for concern in an European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496054
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The long-term effects of financial aid and career education : evidence from a randomized experiment
Renée, Laëtitia - 2022
I study the effects of the Future to Discover Project, a randomized experiment in which Canadian high school students were either invited to participate in career planning workshops or were made eligible for an $8,000 college grant. By matching the experimental data to post-secondary institution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279169
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Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is "Yes". We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600854
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Does Relative Income Matter?: Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is "Yes". We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017426
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Do data show divergence? : revisiting global income inequality trends
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779517
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Does redistribution hurt growth? : an empirical assessment of the redistribution-growth relationship in the European Union
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; De Poli, Silvia - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515808
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Public versus Private Education with Risky Human Capital
Kindermann, Fabian - 2009
This paper studies the long-run macroeconomic, distributional and welfare effects of tuition policy and student loans. We therefore form a rich model of risky human capital investment based on the seminal work of Heckman, Lochner and Taber (1998). We extend their original model by variable labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600889
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Public versus Private Education with Risky Human Capital
Kindermann, Fabian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
This paper studies the long-run macroeconomic, distributional and welfare effects of tuition policy and student loans. We therefore form a rich model of risky human capital investment based on the seminal work of Heckman, Lochner and Taber (1998). We extend their original model by variable labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578348
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600978
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740509