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Unbalanced Growth and Women's Homework
Pugno, Maurizio - 2002
This paper provides an explanation for five stylized facts concerning growth and structural change in the developed economies: (i) the rising share of service employment; (ii) the increase in the female employment rate; (iii) the deceleration of this increase while approaching the male employment...
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Life expectancy, labor supply, and long-run growth : reconciling theory and evidence
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2012
We set up a simple overlapping generation model that allows us to distinguish between life expectancy and active life expectancy. We show that individuals optimally adjust to a longer active life by educating more and, if the labor supply elasticity is high enough, by supplying less labor. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009619090
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The Urbanization-Household Gender Inequality Nexus : Evidence from Time Allocation in China
de Bruin, Anne - 2019
patterns. China's rapid urbanization raises important questions about the changing nature of gender asymmetries in the … while traditional gendered time-use patterns persist among rural households, urbanization and migration reduces gender … work; the role of education and income in eroding gender norms; and the impact of grandparents on time-use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871170
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Economic growth with heterogeneous households, gender division of labor, and elastic labor supply
Zhang, Wei-Bin - In: Journal of income distribution : an international quarterly 21 (2012) 2, pp. 15-37
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The Supply of Hours Worked and Fluctuations Between Growth Regimes
Iong, Ka-Kit; Irmen, Andreas - 2021
Declining hours of work per worker in conjunction with a growing work force may give rise to fluctuations between growth regimes. This is shown in an overlapping generations model with two-period lived individuals endowed with Boppart-Krusell preferences (Boppart and Krusell (2020)). On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233150
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The supply of hours worked and fluctuations between growth regimes
Iong, Ka-Kit; Irmen, Andreas - 2021
Declining hours of work per worker in conjunction with a growing work force may give rise to fluctuations between growth regimes. This is shown in an overlapping generations model with two-period lived individuals endowed with Boppart-Krusell preferences (Boppart and Krusell (2020)). On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499514
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Documentation FiFoSiM : Integrated Tax Benefit Microsimulation and CGE Model
Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2007
This documentation describes FiFoSiM, the integrated tax benefit microsimulation and CGE model of the Center of Public Economics at the University of Cologne. FiFoSiM consists of three main parts. The first part is a static tax benefit microsimulation module. The second part adds a behavioural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053112
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Life Expectancy, Labor Supply, and Long-Run Growth : Reconciling Theory and Evidence
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2014
We set up a simple overlapping generation model that allows us to distinguish between life expectancy and active life expectancy. We show that individuals optimally adjust to a longer active life by educating more and, if the labor supply elasticity is high enough, by supplying less labor. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165522
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Chapter 8. Energy, the Environment and US Economic Growth
Jorgenson, Dale W.; Goettle, Richard J.; Ho, Mun S.; … - In: Handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling : …, (pp. 477-552). 2013
growth that determine the intermediate-run trends that are important for policy evaluation. Heterogeneity of different energy … producers and consumers is critical for the evaluation of energy and environmental policies. To capture this heterogeneity it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025283
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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
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