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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2010
Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into an otherwise standard R&D-based growth model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809945
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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2011 - This version: August 2011
Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate R&D-based growth into a unified growth setup with micro-founded fertility and schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675344
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Grandparents, moms, or dads? why children of teen mothers do worse in life
Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296522
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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414973
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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013390948
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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers
Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 2011
We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when … workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage … earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the low-productivity worker derives (dis)utility not only from his own effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990892
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Technological change and inequality in the very long run
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2020
In this paper we investigate the impact of technological change on inequalityin the presence of a landed elite using a standard unified growth model. We measure inequality by the ratio between land rent and wages and show that, before the onset of the fertility transition, technological progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012204880
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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : a hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2022
parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive …) wage constant, the intensity of child labor decreases with the parent's earnings. However, when we make the child …'s (imputed) wage a function of the parent's earnings, then the outcome can be different. With the help of a numerical example, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820870
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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : a hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2021
parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive …) wage constant, the intensity of child labor decreases with the parent's earnings. However, when we make the child …'s (imputed) wage a function of the parent's earnings, then the outcome can be different. With the help of a numerical example, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796881
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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : a hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2022
parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive …) wage constant, the intensity of child labor decreases with the parent’s earnings. However, when we make the child …’s (imputed) wage a function of the parent’s earnings, then the outcome can be different. With the help of a numerical example, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799297