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Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivitygrowth is positively correlated with population size or …
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This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the variousmechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition.Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance forthe understanding of...
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Was lernt “die Praxis” von “der Wissenschaft”? Welches Wissen wird von gegenwärtigenoder künftigen Managern angenommen und angewendet? Und welches Wissen wird ignoriertund nicht angewendet? Meine These ist, daß sich insbesondere die aus wissenschaftlicherSicht schlechten Konzepte...
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Die Ungleichheit in Deutschland hatzugenommen und ist hartnäckigergeworden. Die noch immer mächtigewohlfahrtsstaatliche Umverteilungverdeckt nur eine zunehmend tiefereGesellschaftsspaltung. Diese Spaltungschadet dem Wachstum kurzfristigdurch Konsumausfall und langfristigdadurch, dass eine...
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theory are used here as reference points insearch of self-renewal capacity. The results show that endogenous growth theory … gives moreroom for self-renewal capacity than does neoclassical growth theory, but, nonetheless,several questions, such as …
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Dieser Beitrag skizziert eine „conceptual history“ der modernen Gesellschaft. Er unterscheideteine malthusianische Stagnationsphase und eine postmalthusianische Wachstumsphaseder Weltwirtschaftsgeschichte und entwickelt anhand eines Modells zur Interdependenzwirtschaftlicher und politischer...
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Unied growth theory predicts that the timing of the fertility transitionis a key determinant of contemporary …
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is,and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and ratesare provided by level of...
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By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of workerperformance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several relateddimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles...
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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countriesfor the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered,and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, andwhat type. To...
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