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Macroeconomic effects of demographic change: the role of human capital
Geppert, Christian - 2015
to college households in terms of welfare. Chapter 2 disentangles the effect of demographic change on returns to risk …. Chapter 3 develops a method for computing transitional dynamics in heterogeneous agent models with aggregate risk if these …
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Risk preference and child labour : econometric evidence
Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David - 2020
is a function of the risk preference of the household head. This paper estimates the effect of parental risk preference … on child labour decisions in the household using recall information on child labour and a risk elicitation question. We …The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200935
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Household risks and household human capital investment : longitudinal evidence from Thailand
Sirisankanan, Aeggarchat - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 29 (2017) 2, pp. 493-511
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The welfare implications of health capital investment
Holland, Sara B. - In: The quarterly journal of finance 4 (2014) 2, pp. 1-27
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Why do firms pay an overtime premium?
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000
We develop a rationale for the payment by firms of a wage premium on marginal, or overtime, weekly hours. We examine wage-hours contracts within the framework of a two-period specific human capital model with asymmetric information. The wage premium serves to achieve contract efficiency. For...
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Trading off static efficiency and dynamic incentives in apprenticeship relations
Melgare, Pedro - In: Brazilian review of econometrics : BRE ; the review of … 41 (2021) 1, pp. 125-150
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Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling : new evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael; Barimah, Alfred; … - 2020
in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys …
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Welfare effect of flat income tax reform : the case of Bulgaria
Vasilev, Aleksandar - In: Eastern European economics 53 (2015) 3, pp. 205-220
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The welfare effect of flat income tax reform : the case of Bulgaria
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2015
This paper is a first attempt to provide a quantitative evaluation of the welfare gains resulting from the introduction of flat income taxation in Bulgaria in 2008. Using a calibrated micro-founded endogenous growth model with physical and human capital accumulation to Bulgarian data, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518440
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Analysis of growth, inequality and welfare through the interaction between private individual labor-time and public spending on education
Likhitcharoenkorn, Lathan - In: Southeast Asian journal of economics 3 (2015) 1, pp. 53-102
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