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Regional industrial structure, productivity, wealth and income distribution in German regions
Margarian, Anne - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2013
different industries differ in their propensity for innovation. Once the rigid assumptions of standard economic theory are … effects. Therefore, a cross‐sectional estimation with observations on district level (NUTS 3) is carried out in a mediated … Einkommensverteilung in der Region. Abhängig von der unterschiedlichen Mobilität Beschäftigter verschiedener Bereiche steht die regionale …
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Soziale Ertragsraten und Verteilungseffekte des Humankapitals: internationale Evidenz.
Gundlach, Erich; Hemmer, Hans-Rimbert - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2003
Humankapital gilt gemeinhin als eine wesentliche Determinante von Wachstum und Entwicklung. Der empirischen Forschung fällt es derzeit allerdings nicht leicht, die quantitative Relevanz des Humankapitals für den gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsprozess zu bestimmen. Neuere Studien bieten ein...
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Bildungsressourcen, Bildungsinstitutionen und Bildungsqualität: Makroökonomische Relevanz und mikroökonomische Evidenz.
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2004
Nach dem sogenannten PISA-Schock wird insbesondere in Deutschland intensiv diskutiert, wie die Qualität der schulische Ausbildung verbessert werden kann. Dabei herrscht die Überzeugung vor, dass die Qualität der schulischen Ausbildung eine wichtige Determinante des langfristigen...
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent. [CDE WP 101].
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Inequality and Mobility
Hassler, John; Mora, José Vicente Rodríguez; Zeira, Joseph - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
This paper presents a theoretical model that can aid the understanding of how wage inequality and mobility are jointly determined. The model shows that the correlation between inequality and mobility can be used to identify the cause of changes in inequality. Changes in the production sector...
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone’s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In this Paper, we analyse the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone's income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
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Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality
Das, Mausumi; Chakraborty, Shankha - eSocialSciences - 2010
Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. Health human capital is introduced into a two-period overlapping generations model....
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Paul, Gilles Saint - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone’s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532010
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More Inequality, Less Social Mobility
Andrews, Dan; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the...
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