Definitions
- English = Swedish = Spanish
- Explanation.
Reference to chapter.
- Capital owner = Kapitalägare = Dueño de
capital
- The part of the population that has incomes because they own
fixed capital or shares in the private sector. A person of the
category capital owners may simultaneously belong to the one of
the other categories pensioners, unemployed, publicly or privately
employed. Chapter 7.
- Children = Barn = Niños
- Children, 15 years of age or younger, Supported by their parents
and receive no direct payments that are part of the circular flows.
See households. Chapter 7.
- Endogenous = Edogogen = Endógeno
- A quantity that is part of a system and that can be calculated
when the parameters and state variables of the system are known.
- Exogenous = Exogen = Exógeno
- A quantity that influences a system and that is determined
by circumstances outside the system. Chapter 2.
- Household = Hushåll = Casa, Familia
- All of the people who live under one roof and who make, or
are subject to others making for them, joint financial decisions.
The smallest unit of the economy. I categorize the part of the
population that are 16 years old or more into different kinds
of households. Children, 15 years and younger, are (in Sweden)
supported by their parents and do not receive any direct payments
that are part of the circular flows. A more detailed model intended
to calculate the children's allowances and the number of students
in the schools has to consider the children as a separate category.
The Swedish population statistics (SCB ref. 1) has the age categories
-6, 7-17, 18-24, 25-44, 45-64, 65- . The category 16-17 years
is treated different in different contexts. Here they are included
in the potential work force because the statistics include them
among the unemployed. Chapter 7.
- Parameter = Parameter = Parámetro
- A constant of a model equation. Determines the properties
of the system. Chapter 2.
- Pensioners = Pensionärer = Pensionistas
- Persons 65 years of age and older.
- Produced man-year = Producerat manår = Año-hombre
producido
- See product man-year.
- Product man-year = Produktmanår = Año-hombre
de producto
- The utility that a commodity or a service represents, measured
as use labor at standard conditions. A product man-year (pmy)
= the volume of products that are produced when a person works
one year, with standard working hours (8 hours/day), at a certain
base year with the used of the technology for that time. Chapter
10.
- Productivity = Produktivitet = Productividad
- The volume of goods and services that is produced by one person
working during one year. Measure as produced man-year / worked
man-year (pmy/wmy). Chapter 10.
- System = System = Sistema
- The part of the real world that we want to study. The environments
of the system lie outside the system limits.
- State = Tillstånd = Estado
- A state (position in the state space) of a system at a certain
instance in time. The state is defined by the state variables
of the system. The state of a system at one instance in time depends
upon the state at a previous time and the dynamic properties of
the system. Chapter 2, 12.
- State variable = Tillståndsvariabel = Variable
de estado
- Determines the state of the system. The number of state variables
is the smallest numbers of variables needed to define the state
of the system at a certain instance in time. Chapter 2, 12.
- Unemployed = Arbetslösa = Desocupados
- The part of the population in the age, 16 - 64 years, that
do not have a regular job. The unemployed are openly unemployed,
unemployed subject to labor market measures or education, sick
persons, students or housewives. They constitute a remainder in
the population statistics, when the active work force and the
pensioners are subtracted from the adult population. My simple
models use this definition. However the official and most used
definition includes only the openly unemployed. Chapter 7.
- Variable = Variabel = Variable
- A quantify that varies with time.
- Worked man-year = Arbetat manår = Año-hombre
trabajado
- Work done by one person during one year with 8 daily working
hours, without reference to product volume. Yearly wage or salary
for one person (CU/man-year) is calculated per worked man-year
(wmy). Compare with produced man-year (pmy). Chapter 10.
Nomenclature
- oBu
- Planned budget deficit. Chap 12.
- tBidr
- Allowances to the households, for children, apartment, sickness
etc. Chapter 12.
- CU
- Currency Unit, National currency or multiple there off. (1000*,
1000.000* etc.)
- kKr
- 1000 crones (k=kilo).
- X(.)
- The dependent variables of the system.
- Y(.)
- The state variables of the system.
References
- SCB: Statistisk årsbok ´96 för Sverige,
Statistiska centralbyrån 1996. Tabell 33, Folkmängd
efter ålder …
(Statistical year-book of Sweden 1996. Table 33, Population
according to age … )
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