TY  - BOOK
AU  - Uwe Sunde
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 0531-7339
TI  - Aggregate Returns to Individual Decisions
T2  - Development, Income Inequality and Competition for Jobs and Workers
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096327
N2  - In general, economic decisions are made in order to maximize individual well-being or, equivalently, to maximize the returns of these decisions to the individual. However, while taking their environment as given, the decision-makers often do not explicitly take into account what consequences their decisions have on the aggregate level. Many macroeconomic phenomena can be seen as unintended or unforeseen consequences, ‘returns’, to the decisions of rational individuals. This book presents several models in this spirit. The first part investigates the role of individual education decisions for long-term development and international differences in earnings inequality. The second part focuses on the consequences of individual search decisions on the labor market for the observed patterns of job creation.
KW  - Rational Choice, Erwartungsbildung, Arbeitsmarkt, Arbeitsnachfrage, Matching, Endogenes Wachstum, Ausbildungssysteme, Matchingmodelle, USA, Westdeutschland (Alte BRD), Einkommensverteilung, Langfristige Entwicklung, Industrielles Zeitalter
LA  - English
ER  -