Essays about: "allocation of labor"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 22 essays containing the words allocation of labor.

  1. 6. Do we have a feasible case for an economy-wide UBI policy that is a Pareto Improvement over the status-quo?

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Pratanu Mitra; Mattias Windahl; [2021]
    Keywords : Universal Basic Income; Social Welfare; Financial Inter-mediation; Household Finance; Normative implications of UBI;

    Abstract : The question, merits and normative underpinnings of a Universal Basic Income policy have a long-standing genealogy in the various schools of thought that straddle economic reasoning. The demand for an exercise in dynamic general equilibrium macroeconomics, with microeconomic foundations, has been expressed by Ghatak and Maniquet (2019), Banerjee et al. READ MORE

  3. 7. Product allocation for an automated order picking system in an e-commerce warehouse : A data mining approach

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Logistik- och kvalitetsutveckling

    Author : Alexander Dahl; [2020]
    Keywords : warehouse; data mining; machine learning; automated; picking; association rule learning; logistics; material handling; pharmacy; a-frame; A frame; e-commerce;

    Abstract : Warehouse automation is a measure E-commerce companies can take to get a more streamlined flow through their warehouse. Order picking is the most labor intensive task in a warehouse. By automating the order picking process companies can lower their costs and improve their response times. READ MORE

  4. 8. Heterogeneous Optimality of Lifetime Consumption and Asset Allocation : Growing Old in Sweden

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Jessica Radeschnig; [2017]
    Keywords : Finite Horizon Stochastic Dynamic Programming; Swedish Pensions; Law of Large Numbers; Spline Interpolation; Dynamic Programming Practical Manual;

    Abstract : This thesis covers a utility optimizing model designed and calibrated for agents of the Swedish economy. The main ingredient providing for this specific country is the modeling of the pension accumulation and pension benefits, which closely mimics the Swedish system. READ MORE

  5. 9. Immigration and the Municipal Economies in Sweden: The Impact of Population Change on Aggregate Outcomes

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Henrik Boltenstål; Olle Kruber; [2017]
    Keywords : Migration; Migration Policy; Local Government Expenditures; Demographic Economics;

    Abstract : Asylum immigration in Sweden entails net fiscal costs on national level, but the impact on individual municipalities is not extensively researched. If there are net costs also on municipal level, it could be argued that the management principle of controllability is violated, as the allocation of asylum immigrants is decided on national level, but the long term costs are borne mainly by the municipalities. READ MORE

  6. 10. The effects of increased non-work time on the energy intensity of consumption

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Jonathan Stråle; [2016]
    Keywords : consumption; energy-intensity of consumption; time allocation; time effects; retirement consumption;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how the energy intensity of consumption is affected by an increase in non-work time by estimating how retirement affects the consumption of gasoline and air travel. An estimable model is derived from Becker's (1965) theory of time allocation which is then estimated for a sample of 58-68 year old full-time workers and retired individuals that is taken from the 2014 Consumer Expenditure Survey made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. READ MORE