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Patience and prosperity
Strulik, Holger - 2009
adjustment dynamics in line with the historical facts on savings and economic growth in Europe from the High Middle Ages to today …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270036
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Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development
Galor, Oded - 2011
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for economic development, the Neoclassical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284077
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653022
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture - Comparative economic development: Insights from unified growth theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284035
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A bioeconomic foundation of the Malthusian equilibrium : body size and population size in the long-run
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2007
This paper develops a bioeconomic Malthusian growth model. By integrating recent research on allometric scaling, energy consumption and ontogenetic growth, we provide a model where subsistence consumption is endogenously linked to body size and fertility. The theory admits a unique Malthusian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265679
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A bioeconomic foundation for the nutrition-based efficiency wage model
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2008
Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265684
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How we fall apart: Similarities of human aging in 10 European countries
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2017
purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590639
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Health and Aging before and after Retirement
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2021
Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799670
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Health and aging before and after retirement
Abeliansky, Ana; Strulik, Holger - 2020
five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a frailty index for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234809
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Income distribution and macroeconomics
Galor, Oded; Zeira, Joseph - 2013
This paper analyzes the role of income distribution in macroeonomic analysis. The study demonstrates that the long-run equilibrium depends on the initial distribution of income. In accordance with empirical evidence concerning the correlation between income distribution and output, an economy...
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