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The biocultural origins of human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
finding further indicates that the optimal level of fecundity was below the population median, lending credence to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401725
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The biocultural origins of human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
finding further indicates that the optimal level of fecundity was below the population median, lending credence to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403448
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded - 2014
finding further indicates that the optimal level of fecundity was below the population median, lending credence to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046678
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Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2000
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325987
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Hours and Wages in the Depression : British Engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2021
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321306
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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: August 2, 2012
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690734
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The New Stylized Facts About Income and Subjective Well-Being
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2013
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088124
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Effects of Population Aging on Economic Growth : A Panel Analysis
Lee, Hyun-Hoon - 2013
This paper aims to assess the effects of population aging on economic growth. We adopt the partial-adjustment model to … levels and changes in the proportions of the young and elderly population. Unlike the young population, the segment of the … elderly population in the total population (or relative to the working-age population) does not indicate a “demographic burden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072068
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German emigration via Bremen in the Weimar Republic (1920-1932)
Lumpe, Christian; Lumpe, Claudia - 2017
deduce the skill level of the emigrating working population on the basis of information about occupations in the dataset. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773459
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Can demography improve inflation forecasts? : the case of Sweden
Bruér, Mattias - 2002
Time series regressions indicate that age structure has significant forecasting power on Swedish inflation. The results agree with a Phillips-Okun framework, assuming that the demographic composition affects productivity. The relative age effects are also relatively well in accordance with what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588176