Showing 1 - 10 of 315
This volume develops original methods of analyzing biased technological progress in the theory and empirics of economic growth and income distribution. Motivated by sharp increases in wage and income inequalities in the world since the beginning of the new century, many macroeconomists have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397030
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520986
This book deals with the key aspects of developments in monetary economics and macroeconomics, such as the New Consensus Macroeconomics, and further ones such as money, credit and the business cycle. Adding to the analysis are developments that focus on issues for open and spatial macroeconomics
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054267
Low-paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low-paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054136
This book explores the reasons behind Europe’s poor performance in terms of overall growth and its progressively … diminishing role in the global context. Recognizing that the big challenge is to restore confidence and hope in Europe, potential … will be required for Europe to become a region characterized by social justice, dynamism, and opportunities for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402075
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014014698
The purpose of this book is twofold. First, this book is an attempt to map the state of quantitative research in Asian tourism and hospitality context and provide a detailed description of the design, implementation, application, and challenges of quantitative methods in tourism in Asia. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396055
This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics. It addresses the most important problems caused by demographic changes using the popular overlapping generations growth model by Samuelson and Diamond. Taking into account families’ fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397479
This book sheds new light on the relationship between economy and the environment by approaching the issue from evolutionary and institutional economics. Building a framework of theory and empirical analysis, it provides an in-depth perspective on how economic growth and environmental policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397786
This book explores the US economy from 1960 to 2010 using a more Keynsian, Cowles model approach, which the author argues has substantial advantages over the vector autoregression (VAR) and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models used almost exclusively today. Heim presents a robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398077