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The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge … and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does … not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link is the mechanism converting knowledge into economically relevant …
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towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries … are able to benefit from domestic knowledge. …
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-biased technological change was due to a growth in ``Baconian knowledge'' and international trade. Simulations show that the model does a …
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unskilled-labor-biased. Increasing basic knowledge causes a growth takeoff, an income-led demand for fewer educated children …
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This Paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...
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This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...
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This Paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136721
satisfy an indefinite range of wants and firms' incentive to utilize knowledge from past production experiences. We show that … firms endogenously form a number of distinguishable industries as accumulated knowledge induces them to agglomerate in the … technology space. Knowledge accumulation in existing industries reduces production costs, but, as the diminishing returns from …
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of knowledge and technology in economic growth. …
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is found on immediate technology transfer. Another result is a significant effect of domestic innovation activity. There … results obtained provide some policy implications and make the case for taking into account domestic innovation activity while …
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