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Pollution perception. An inquiry into intergenerational equity
Schuhmacher, Ingmar; Zou, Benteng - 2005
In this article we extend the recent literature on overlapping generations with a pollution sector by allowing generations to have a certain pollution perception with regards to the stock of pollution. Pollution perception, assumed to be part of the generations' preferences, can be either a...
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14.452 Economic Growth, Fall 2008
Acemoglu, Daron - 2008
Description This half semester class presents an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, focusing on the theory of economic growth …
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Fiscal policy, structural reforms and external imbalances : a quantitative evaluation for Spain
Gavilán González, Ángel; Hernández de Cos, Pablo; … - 2011
Este artículo considera un modelo de generaciones solapadas, aplicado a una economía pequeña, abierta al comercio internacional y caracterizada por la existencia de competencia imperfecta en los mercados de bienes y de trabajo, para analizar: i) cuáles fueron los principales determinantes de...
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From Bismarck to Beveridge : the other pension reform in Spain
Conde Ruiz, José Ignacio; González Martínez, Clara Isabel - 2014
El envejecimiento de la población es un proceso imparable que continúa suponiendo un reto para la sostenibilidad del sistema de reparto de pensiones en la mayoría de los países desarrollados, incluida España. Gran parte de estos países necesitan llevar a cabo reformas en sus sistemas de...
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Health and Growth: Causality through Education
Huang, Rui; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley F. - 2009
Replaced with revised version of paper 08/24/09.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444818
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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMICS OF LABOR MARKETS
Stetsenko, Sergiy - 2010
the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United States between the 1970s and 1990s … and shows how the cyclical and secular properties of fertility can be used to distinguish among several proposed theories … that account for the rise in labor force participation of married mothers. The model, in which households make fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438698
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On the inefficiency of pay-as-you-go pension systems in stochastic economies with assets
Böhm, Volker; Hillebrand, Marten - 2007
This paper studies the impact of variations of a pay-as-you-go pension system on welfare in a stochastic overlapping generations model where compulsory public retirement savings coexist with private savings in assets and bonds. It is shown that, for a stationary population, any reduction of...
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Ökonomische und politische Konsequenzen des demographischen Wandels (3. Alfred-Weber-Lecture)
Miegel, Meinhard - 2009
Die dritte Alfred-Weber-Lecture des Instituts für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg hielt Prof. Dr. Meinhard Miegel zum Thema "Ökonomische und politische Konsequenzen des demographischen Wandels".Am Dienstag, den 13. Januar 2009, fand in der Alten Aula der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476172
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Die gesetzliche Frauenquote in Deutschland
Amling, Svenja - 2010
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird auf eine per Gesetz vorgeschriebene Frauenquote in Deutschland eingegangen. Im Fokus steht die Frage, ob Frauendiskriminierung durch eine solche Vorschrift tatsächlich bekämpft werden kann oder ob vielmehr die Männer diskriminiert würden. Zudem werden...
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From Prediction to Prescription: Intelligent Decision Support for Variable Rate Fertilization
Fink, Raymond Keith; Hoskinson, Reed Louis; Hess, John … - 2009
We describe the use of machine learning methods in the analysis of spatial soil fertility, soil physical …
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