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What do social scientists know about the benefits of marriage? : A review of quantitative methodologies

Ribar, David C. - 2004

assess the benefits of marriage and consequences of other family structures. The study begins by describing theoretical … also discusses models of the determinants of marriage. The study then overviews specific statistical techniques that have … been applied in empirical analyses of the effects of marriage, including standard regression, instrumental variables …

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Kooperationen in der europäischen Verteidigungswirtschaft: Stand, Chancen und Probleme

Röhl, Klaus-Heiner - 2022

Industrielle Kooperationen bieten gerade für innovative Vorhaben Vorteile, denn Forschungs- und Entwicklungsausgaben können so auf mehrere Schultern verteilt und die jeweilige Expertise der Beteiligten effizient genutzt werden. Im Bereich der Verteidigungsindustrie kommt zum Neuigkeitsgrad zu...

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Towards an Objective-Driven System of Smart Labor Migration Management

Holzmann, Robert; Pouget, Yann - 2010

This policy note offers motivation as well as game plan how to achieve a coherent and mutually beneficial labor migration system. It argues that migrant workers may importantly contribute to economic growth and development both in sending and receiving countries if they find the enabling...

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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009

This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the contributing local skilled, slows human capital...

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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...

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Population, Population Density, and Technological Change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Economic growth and subjective well-being: reassessing the Easterlin paradox

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2008

The Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...

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A dual policy paradox: why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...

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Earnings over the lifecycle: the Mincer earnings function and its applications

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...

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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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