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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility:A Unified Theory of the Economic andDemographic Transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individualsmake optimal decisions about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity ofthe investments in their own education. These decisions are affected by different dimensionsof mortality...

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Earnings Inequality and Central-City Development

Mills, Edwin S. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999

Many papers have shown that U.S. earnings inequalityincreased substantially from about 1980 to around 1996.1Recent and careful studies agree that a basic explanationfor increased earnings inequality is the rising returns tohuman capital resulting from new technology. These risingreturns have...

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Entrepreneurship and Higher Education: An Overviewof the Iowa State University Alumni Survey

Jolly, Robert William; Li, Yu; Orazem, Peter F.; Kimle, … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

Entrepreneurship is a hot topic both in academic and policy circles.1 There is a growingrecognition that entrepreneurship is a driving force in economic growth and development in bothestablished and emerging economies. There is also an increasing body of evidence suggestingentrepreneurship that...

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Entwicklung wird möglich

Bergmann, Gustav - Universität <Siegen> / Lehrstuhl für Innovations- und … - 2010

ich das denn ändern? Entwicklung scheint schwierig zu sein, auf der Ebene des Individuums,sozialer Systeme oder ganzer … Gesellschaften. Entwicklung wird möglich, so die These in diesem Artikel, wennwir die unbewussten Hemmnisse in und zwischen Menschen … sozialen Rollen, in denen uns unsere Umgebungauch festhält. Wenn wir wirkliche Entwicklung wollen, benötigen wir dafür neue …

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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and theProcess of Development

Galor, Oded - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economicdevelopment has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. Whileclassical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for growth, theneoclassical paradigm dismissed the...

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Wages, Rents and Heterogeneous Moving Costs

Krupka, Douglas J.; Donaldson, Kwame - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The model of compensating differentials in regional labor markets was developed by Roback(1982). The model interprets regional differences in constant quality wages and rents ascompensating firms and residents for inter-regional differences in amenities. The modelassumes that the costs of...

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Renaissance der Stadt: Durch eine veränderteMobilität zu mehr Lebensqualitätim städtischen Raum

Bertram, Grischa; Altrock, Uwe - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Abteilung Wirtschafts- und … - 2009

Die vorliegende Studie verdeutlicht, wie durcheine Kombination von Stadtentwicklungs- undVerkehrspolitik sowohl eine Renaissance der Stadtals auch eine Wiederkehr städtischer Mobilitätgelingen kann. Damit könnten nicht nur die negativenFolgen des bisherigen Suburbanisierungstrendsabgemildert...

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Exploring Mobile Information Systems for Adolescent Cancer Patients

Leimeister, Jan Marco; Knebel, Uta; Krcmar, Helmut - Institut für Informatik <München, Technische … - 2005

Adolescent cancer patients have to deal with many dependencies and obligations. Very often they are torn out oftheir social environment and become isolated because of changing therapy cycles and different treatment locations.This causes significant social and economic damages. The objective of...

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PRICE INDEX DISTRIBUTION AND UTILITARIANSOCIAL EVALUATION FUNCTIONS

Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000

Living standard indicators are complex nonlinear statistics based on fundamen-tal components (income or consumption data, prices, household characteristics andenvironment). The statistical distributions of these components, which are oftenincompletely obseved, are central to study utilitarian...

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Mythos Arbeit in Japan : westliche Wahrnehmungen - japanische Realitäten

Jaufmann, Dieter - 1998

-series beginning in the years after the Second World Warwe will try to answer these questions... …

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