knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a “Solovian zone“ where wages increase with … productivity, to a “Marxian“ zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given … creativity is more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers … from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel’s law holds. In turn, urban congestion effects cause a productivity …

factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …

demand side (non-homothetic preferences) and on the supply-side, in particular differential productivity growth across … these trends. The interplay of differences in productivity growth and in the substitution elasticity across sectors drive … find that differences in productivity growth rates between manufacturing and services have been the most important driver …

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …