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Innovation, human capital and earning distribution: towards a dynamic life-cycle approach
Vona, Francesco; Consoli, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835707
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Environmental Kuznets Curve: An Envelope of Technological Progress
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper develops a growth model to provide a theoretical explanation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). Paper explains how EKC is shaped with economic development for a given technology. The EKC result arises in two ways – it can be observed from a single technology that matures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805882
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How enterprise strategies are related to innovation and productivity change: An empirical study of Japanese manufacturing firms
Fujii, Hidemichi; Kazuma, Edamura; Sumikura, Koichi; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
are used to analyze the determinant factors related to improvements in innovation and productivity. Our results indicate … that increasing technology and knowledge through a “black box” process is related to an increase in productivity …. Furthermore, the protection and management of production knowledge and expertise is a valid method of increasing global technical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112811
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A Model of Total Factor Productivity Built on Hayek’s View of Knowledge: What Really Went Wrong with Socialist Planned Economies?
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Because Hayek’s view goes beyond the Walrasian framework, his descriptive arguments on socialist planned economies are prone to be misunderstood. This paper clarifies Hayek’s arguments by using them as a basis to construct a model of total factor productivity. The model shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855541
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Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model
Jun, Bogang; Hwang, Won-Sik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality–growth relation, this paper suggests that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections and that this increasing inequality negatively affects economic growth. We expand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259657
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Proximity and Innovation in Italian SMEs
Morone, Piergiuseppe; Petraglia, Carmelo; Testa, Giuseppina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Abstract: In this paper we assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian … SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of … magnitude of such impact being decreasing in firms’ size. Second, knowledge diffusion via geographical proximity enhances the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622012
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The determinants of long-run inequality
Andrea, Canidio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
I explore the effect of skill-biased technological change on long-run inequality by building a model where the supply of skilled and unskilled workers, the cost of education, and credit rationing are endogenous. In the model, the existence of unequal steady states does not depend on the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645084
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Education, Rent-seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources.
Wadho, Waqar Ahmed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that natural resources breed corruption and reduce educational attainments, dampening economic growth. The theoretical literature has treated these two channels separately, with natural resources affecting growth either through human capital or corruption. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109055
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The Role of Education for the Economic Growth of Bulgaria
Neycheva, Mariya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper presents results of a study which estimates the impact of human capital on growth in Bulgaria over the period 2000-12. The empirical models are based on the extended Cobb-Douglas production with three inputs ─ labor, physical capital and human capital. Export and Foreign Direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110835
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Education investissements directs étrangers et croissance économique réflexions pour le maroc
Jellal, Mohamed; Bouzahzah, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We present an endogenous growth model with technological externalities emitted the presence of the foreign direct investments. We showed that the net positive impact on the growth of these investments may be if and only if the host country such as Morocco has reached a minimal level of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114394