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Trade Union Objectives and Economic Growth

Irmen, Andreas; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2021

A trade union whose purpose is to raise wages above the competitive level may foster economic growth if it succeeds in shifting income away from the owners of capital to the workers and if the workers' marginal propensity to save exceeds the one of capitalists. We make this point in an...

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A Note on Health Insurance and Growth

Bräuninger, Michael - 2003

This paper compares public health care with private health insurance in an overlapping generations endogenous growth model. It is shown that economic growth is higher when there is a private health insurance.

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Serving the Old : Ageing and Economic Growth

Meijdam, A. C. - 2010

This paper focuses on the effect that population ageing has on the production structure of the economy and consequently on economic growth. We consider an economy that consists of a service sector and a commodity sector. Productivity growth only occurs in the latter sector and is assumed to...

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The effects of education and aging in an OLG model : long-run growth in France, Germany and Italy

Catalano, Michele; Pezzolla, Emilia - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 43 (2016) 4, pp. 757-800

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Demography, capital accumulation and growth

Stehrer, Robert; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2022

Europe will be challenged by demographic changes over the next few decades, even under favourable assumptions about fertility and migration, but the economic effects are not yet fully understood. This paper studies the effects of population ageing on economic growth, capital deepening and...

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Optimal life-cycle education decisions of atomistic individuals

Skritek, Bernhard; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; … - In: Human capital and economic growth : the impact of …, (pp. 27-54). 2019

We analyze the optimal life-cycle education decision of a single atomistic individual and show that the standard result of part-time education and part-time work throughout the life-cycle holds only under very special and unrealistic assumptions. Once these assumptions are relaxed, different...

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Adult learning, economic growth and the distribution of income

Stauvermann, Peter; Kumar, Ronald Ravinesh - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-12

Technological change causes three consequences: it guarantees economic growth, it requires employees to acquire more skills and human capital, and it increases inequality if employees are not capable adapting to new technologies. The second consequence makes it almost necessary for employees to...

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Generational Conflict, Human Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2011

Worldwide, dependency ratios are forecast to increase dramatically in the next 50 years. A great deal of attention has been devoted to understanding the changes in fiscal policies that "must" take place to accommodate these changes. In contrast, less effort has been concentrated on studying the...

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Health Expenditures, Longevity and Growth

Dormont, Brigitte; Oliveira Martins, Joaquim; Pelgrin, … - 2015

This paper offers an integrated view of the relationships between health spending, medical innovation, health status, growth and welfare. Health spending triggers technological progress, which is a potential source of better outcomes in terms of longevity and quality of life, a direct source of...

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Chapter 2. Macroeconomics, Aging, and Growth

Lee, R. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 59-118). 2016

Inevitable population aging and slower population growth will affect the economies of all nations in ways influenced by … private transfers rather than assets, and when economies are open, in which case aging will lead to increased flows of capital … and labor. Rising human capital investment per child accompanies the falling fertility that drives population aging, and …

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