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Economic Growth, Innovation, Cultural Diversity. What Are We All Talking About? A Critical Survey of the State-of-the-art
Maignan, Carole Juliette (contributor);  … - 2003
This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME - Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments, financed by the European Commission - FP5 - Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007
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Collective values, behavioural norms, and rules: Building institutions for economic growth and poverty reduction
Chu, Ke-young - 2001
Economic growth and poverty reduction require for a country to establish efficient rules for economic and political transactions. Poor countries suffer from inadequate, inefficient transaction rules. Formal rules (e.g., laws, policies) must be nested in hospitable behavioural norms and values....
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Human genetic diversity and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2008
This research contributes to the understanding of human genetic diversity within a society as a significant determinant of its economic development. The hypothesis advanced and empirically examined in this paper suggests that there are socioeconomic trade-offs associated with genetic diversity...
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Beitragserhöhung oder Staatsverschuldung in der Sozialversicherung?
Scholtz, Hellmut D. - In: Die Rentenversicherung 22 (1981) 4, pp. 74-77
In der Arbeit wird mit Hilfe eines ökonometrischen Modells untersucht, welche Auswirkungen eine unterschiedliche Finanzierung der Sozialversicherung auf Aufbringung von Mitteln, Staatshaushalt, Wirtschaftswachstum und Beschäftigung hat.
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Social security systems, human capital, and growth in a small open economy
Kaganovich, Michael; Meier, Volker - 2008
We consider a small open economy in which the level of public education funding is determined by popular vote. We show that growth can be enhanced by the introduction of pay-as-you-go pensions even if the growth rate of aggregate wages falls short of the interest rate. The reason is that the...
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The role of macroeconomic policy in rebalancing growth
Morgan, Peter J. - 2011
The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007 - 2009 has called the export-led growth model of Asian economies into question. This paper describes the contribution that macroeconomic policy can make to promote a rebalancing of growth away from dependence on exports to developed economies...
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The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries
Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor; Orszag, J. Michael - 2003
Despite substantial increases in longevity, the age of retirement in the industrialized countries has steadily fallen throughout most of the 20th century. In France, for instance, the employment-population ratio of 55-64 year-old males fell from 74% in 1970 to 38.5% in 2000. In most other OECD...
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Fortentwicklung der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung zu einer Erwerbstätigenversicherung
Windhövel, Kerstin; Funke, Claudia; Möller, Jan-Christian - 2011
Die zukünftige finanzielle Absicherung der Rentnerinnen und Rentner in Deutschland wird zunehmend schwieriger. Dazu … Deutschland diskutiert.Das hier vorgestellte Gutachten konzentriert sich auf die Fragestellung der Finanzierung einer …
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Zur Kreditklemme: Ein Vergleich zwischen Japan und Deutschland
Westermann, Frank - In: ifo Schnelldienst 56 (2003) 01, pp. 33-37
Eine Kreditklemme der privaten Firmen trägt nach Meinung von Frank Westermann, Ph.D., Universität München, zu der … derzeitigen Verlangsamung des Wirtschaftswachstums in Deutschland bei. Insbesondere kleinere Firmen sind hiervon betroffen … Entwicklung in vieler Hinsicht an die beginnende Bankenkrise in Japan Anfang der neunziger Jahre. Das Ausmaß des Problems …
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Theories of economic miracles
Seliger, Bernhard - 2010
has been as miraculous in the eyes of the observers as the rise of Germany and Japan from the ashes of World War II or the …
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