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Jacob Mincer A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520422
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Groups and Markets : General Equilibrium with Multi-member Households
Gersbach, Hans - 2017
Haller and Hans Gersbach have pioneered a ‘market’ approach that applies the tools of general equilibrium theory to the … presented in this book extends the theory of the multi-person household along an important but relatively neglected dimension …, that of general equilibrium theory. It also challenges GE theorists themselves to follow Paul Samuelson in taking seriously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397186
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The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage : How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2015
theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provides the conceptual framework for the rest of the chapters …. Two major implications of the theory are sex ratio effects and compensating differentials in marriage. The book …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012401932
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The Taxation of Capitalistic Bequests
Kley, Verena - 2012
The taxation of bequests has long been and still is subject to intensive discussions in many industrialized countries. Triggered by these discussions, Verena Kley analyzes the taxation of bequests from economic perspectives, focusing on wealth transfers of very rich individuals. Given empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552550
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Sustainability and Optimality of Public Debt
Carlberg, Michael - 2013 - 2nd ed. 2013
Introduction -- A Brief Survey of the Literature -- The Closed Economy: The Solow Model -- Overlapping Generations -- Infinite Horizon -- The Small Open Economy: The Solow Model -- Overlapping Generations -- Two Countries: The Solow Model -- Synopsis -- Conclusion -- Result
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016345
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Standardization and Expectations
Langenberg, Tobias (contributor) - 2006
Over the last decades, technological progress has brought about a multitude of standardization problems. For instance, compatibility standards ensure the interoperability of goods, which is of decisive importance when users face positive externalities in consumption. Consumers' expectations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520491
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Monopsonistic Labour Markets and the Gender Pay Gap : Theory and Empirical Evidence
Hirsch, Boris - 2010
Spatial Monopsony -- Simple Static Monopsony -- Short-Run Spatial Monopsony -- Long-Run Spatial Monopsony -- Spatial Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap -- Spatial Monopsony and Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap -- Dynamic Monopsony -- Simple Dynamic Monopsony -- A General Equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521339
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Class Struggle on the Home Front : Work, Conflict and Exploitation in the Household
Cassano, Graham (ed.) - 2009
Home/Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106203
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The Historical Consumer : Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850–2000
Francks, Penelope (ed.); Hunter, Janet (ed.) - 2012
This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of the 'consumer revolution' in Europe and North America, contributing to the analysis of the ways in which consumption and everyday life change in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106246
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Household Credit Usage : Personal Debt and Mortgages
Agarwal, Sumit (ed.); Ambrose, Brent William (ed.) - 2007
In response to growing interest in household finance, this collection of essays with a foreword by John Y. Campbell, studies household and consumer use of credit instruments. It shows how individual consumers and households utilize various credit alternatives in managing their consumption and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054218