Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 4,836
Cover Image
Endogenous maternity allowances as exemplified by academic promotion standards
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2019
productive if they choose to become mothers. Even though motherhood temporarily handicaps their productivity, it is exactly this … cost of motherhood that signals the mothers' intrinsic high productivity. I explicitly refer to the academic labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966871
Cover Image
Digital piracy : theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010
; IP protection ; internet ; peer-to-peer ; software ; music …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698398
Cover Image
Digital Piracy : Theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2021
This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316143
Cover Image
Social networks and the demand for news
George, Lisa M.; Peukert, Christian - In: Information economics and policy : IEP 49 (2019), pp. 1-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301820
Cover Image
How can we make a socially optimal large-scale media platform? : analysis of a monopolistic Internet media platform using two-sided market theory
Kim, Song-min - In: Telecommunications policy : the international journal … 40 (2016) 9, pp. 899-918
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621597
Cover Image
Early child development and parents' labor supply
Lafférs, Lukás; Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
provide evidence that mothers substitute working time with childcare to compensate for early disadvantages. We do not find any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256358
Cover Image
Peer effects in sexual initiation : separating demand and supply mechanisms
Richards-Shubik, Seth - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 663-702
Most work on social interactions studies a single, composite effect of interactions within a group. Yet in the case of sexual initiation, there are two distinct social mechanisms-peer-group norms and partner availability-with separate effects and different potential interventions. Here I develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757758
Cover Image
How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936144
Cover Image
R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2010
population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809945
Cover Image
Short and long-term effects of unemployment on fertility
Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015
Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317653