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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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....
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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 …
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Financial sector: Banks fall behind and now have a lower proportion of women on executive and advisory boards than insurance companies
Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 16-28
Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector's top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated...
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Top decision-making bodies in large companies: Gender quota shows initial impact on supervisory boards executive board remains a male bastion
Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 3-15
The gender quota for supervisory boards that has been mandatory since January 2016 has shown an initial impact. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, there were more women on the supervisory boards of the 106 companies subject to the statutory quota than one...
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Finanzsektor: Banken fallen zurück - Frauenanteil jetzt auch in Aufsichtsräten geringer als bei Versicherungen
Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 1/2, pp. 17-30
Nach wie vor sind Frauen in Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors deutlich in der Minderheit. Dem Managerinnen-Barometer des DIW Berlin zufolge waren die Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsräte der 100 größten Banken Ende des Jahres 2016 zu gut 21 Prozent mit Frauen besetzt. Damit stagnierte der Anteil...
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Spitzengremien großer Unternehmen: Geschlechterquote zeigt erste Wirkung in Aufsichtsräten - Vorstände bleiben Männerdomänen
Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 1/2, pp. 3-16
Die seit Januar 2016 verbindliche Geschlechterquote für Aufsichtsräte in Deutschland zeigt eine erste Wirkung: Dem Managerinnen- Barometer des DIW Berlin zufolge waren in den unter die Quotenregelung fallenden 106 Unternehmen Ende 2016 deutlich mehr Frauen in den Kontrollgremien vertreten als...
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A Stable and Social Europe: Fiscal Rules, a Stabilization Fund, Insolvency Rules, Gender Quota, Gender Pension Gaps, and Education. Reports
Fratzscher, Marcel; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Michelsen, Claus - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 148-159
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