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Linking Micro-Level Entrepreneurial Action and Macro-Level Economic Progress : The Interdisciplinary and Multidimensional Domain of Entrepreneurship Research
Mui, Andruin - 2014
What is entrepreneurship? Who is the entrepreneur? Why, when and how does entrepreneurship originate and what are its effects across time and border? The lack of a satisfactory definition and conceptual framework of entrepreneurship has undermined the legitimacy of entrepreneurship as a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172619
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic … effect of life expectancy on population, human capital and income per capita is not the same before and after the demographic … transition. Moreover, a sufficiently high life expectancy is ultimately the trigger of the transition to sustained income growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837588
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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009708703
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Demographic dynamics and long-run development : insights for the secular stagnation debate
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2016
transition that has occurred in the developed world over the past 150 years. To the extent that high growth rates in the past … implications for the prospects of human and physical capital accumulation, the evolution of productivity and the question of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537253
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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Cervellati, Matteo - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086663
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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth : The Role of the Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo - 2009
individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic … effect of life expectancy on population, human capital and income per capita is not the same before and after the demographic … transition. Moreover, a sufficiently high life expectancy is ultimately the trigger of the transition to sustained income growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159658
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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Cervellati, Matteo - 2008
We present a theory of the economic and demographic transition where adult longevity, child mortality, fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722698
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Demographic Dynamics and Long-Run Development : Insights for the Secular Stagnation Debate
Cervellati, Matteo - 2016
transition that has occurred in the developed world over the past 150 years. To the extent that high growth rates in the past … implications for the prospects of human and physical capital accumulation, the evolution of productivity and the question of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982607
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Why Inventions Occurred in Some Countries and Not in Others?
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
by economic historians. For the first time,we access the determinants of more than a hundred inventions around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258812
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Human Capital and Genetic Diversity
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The determinants of human capital have been studied sparsely in the literature. Although there is a huge literature on the determinants of schooling linked with the quality of schooling, there are not many contributions that explore the deep determinants of investment in, quantity and quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108070