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real capital. An important prerequisite for a sustainable growth process is the efficient design of the social security …
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One of the most interesting facts about the growth of developed nations, especially of the US growth, in the last three … decades is significant growth of the ratio of the wage of skilled labor to that of unskilled labor. At the same time, existing … growth which is common to all developed countries and which can explain the greatest part of education cost ratio increase in …
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Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio …-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are …-2011), we identify the causal effect of intergenerational mobility on household expenditure’s future growth. We find that …
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A controversial new financing phenomenon has recently emerged. New “income share agreements” (“ISAs”) enable an individual to raise funds by pledging a percentage of her future earnings to investors for a certain number of years. These contracts, which have been offered by entities such...
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We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA, SAT), which is, in turn, affected by their cognitive ability and socioeconomic background. We show that subsidizing education loans increases neither human capital stock nor...
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The recent theorical literature on the political economy of growth displays contrasting findings on the nature of the … political link between income inequality and growth. In this paper, we explain this contrast and argue that in a democracy, when … expenditures by altruistic agents, a negative relation between inequality and growth emerges in equilibrium. …
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This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality increases with growth. The paper argues that the methodologies used in many of the empirical applications, designed to …
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growth. On the one hand, we address modelling approaches in which a distinction is made between managers and workers, where … neo-Kaleckian distribution and growth model with wage inequality, which allows for different medium-run demand regimes in …
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We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital. Evidence suggests that credit constraints have recently become important for schooling and other aspects of households' behavior. We highlight the importance of early childhood investments, since their...
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This paper presents a connecting methodology in order to trace the emerging dynamics of inequality for the youth populace of Europe. We determine that the development of these dynamics are directly affected by the advancement of technology, and especially related to Information and Communication...
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