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What is infrastructure?
Buhr, Walter - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001746296
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What is infrastructure?
Buhr, Walter - 2003
After having pointed out the diverse uses of the term infrastructure in the literature on the market-economy, the … different categories of infrastructure will be described. The argument in this context is that the classification of … infrastructure suggested by Jochimsen has proved useful: institutional, personal, and material infrastructure. On this basis a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525280
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Human capital formation, life expectancy and the process of economic development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2003 - (Updated May 2003)
This paper presents a non-Malthusian theory of long-term development We model the interplay between the process of human capital formation, technological progress, and the biological constraint of finite lifetime expectancy. All these processes are interdependent and determined endogenously. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413569
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Human capital formation, life expectancy and the process of economic development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268855
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Federalism, Taxation, and Economic Growth
Hatfield, John William - 2006
We show that federalism will lead to higher economic growth. We present a model of endogenous growth where government services, funded by income and capital taxes, are a component of production. In this model a decentralized government will choose tax policy to maximize economic growth, while a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734002
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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019
This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...
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Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime : conference paper
Schneider, Maik T.; Winkler, Ralph - 2013 - This version: December 2012
Welfare aspects of longevity increases are often discussed neglecting the complex relationship between longevity and economic growth, which is the focal point of another literature. Combining both perspectives, we develop an endogenous growth OLG-framework to investigate how longevity affects...
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837588
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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth : The Role of the Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159658
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Refugee Resettlement, Redistribution and Growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018
This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less advanced and less wealthy economy combined with income...
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