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, innovation. Endogenous growth theory has long suggested that human capital lead to greater innovation and, through technology … innovation and diffusion, contribute to economic growth. However, there is little evidence on the role of human capital in … endogenous growth theory regarding the effect of human capital on innovation. However, we do not find the consistently …
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Abstract This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the … income distribution. It also confirms that economic growth has strongly and significantly equalizing effect on the income … distribution, supporting the complementarity relationship between equity and growth. In addition, human capital investment …
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This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an OLG model, where human capital dynamics depend on the current environment, through its impact on children's school attendance. In turn, environmental quality dynamics depend on...
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This paper studies the role of education as a way of reducing private rent seeking activities and increasing output. In many underdeveloped economies, for most individuals, there is no private return to education. Nonetheless, according to this paper, governments are better off by investing in...
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. In this paper, we build an overlapping generations (OLG) model with heterogenous agents and endogenous growth driven by …. Calibrating the model to French data, we highlight a tradeoff between growth and redistribution. With a perfect credit market … slower growth. In an economy with an imperfect credit market where individuals cannot borrow to educate, the tradeoff between …
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This paper studies the effect of changes in the employment rate on labour productivity per hour, taking an empirical approach. By splitting the workforce into three qualification categories, this study allows us to distinguish the effects of changes in the employment rate structure from those of...
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We consider a growth model with education, externalities and a cultural norm . We show that endogenous emergence of … this cultural belief may lead to increasing the stock of human capital and accelerating national growth.The mechanism of …
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between skilled labor and unskilled labor wages. The question we ask is how the growth process shapes the wage inequality and … on the set of steady states and find that this relations hip is ambiguous. Finally, we develop an endogenous-growth … version of the model. In this version of the model the relationship between inequality and the rate of growth is also …
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The aim of this paper is to shed light on the relationship between education and growth in Morocco. Econometric tools …, secondary and tertiary) and growth in both direction. However, no stable long-term could be found. This suggests that this …
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This thesis is about two major economic topics, trade policy and education choice. The first and the second essay analyze trade policy with special attention to tariff formation in intermediate-good sectors. The first essay explains tariff formation in intermediate-good sectors from a national...
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