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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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. In this paper, we build an overlapping generations (OLG) model with heterogenous agents and endogenous growth driven by … investment in human capital. We study the effect of ELIE on education investment and other aggregate economic variables …. Calibrating the model to French data, we highlight a tradeoff between growth and redistribution. With a perfect credit market …
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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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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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In this paper, we first, perform a quantitative assessment of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on growth. Second, we …, population and labor force. That is, we disentangle the effect on the different sources of short and long run growth. Using a … and long-lasting effects on demography and growth. According to the estimates presented, GDP per working age population …
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The empirical evidence on the determinants of growth across countries has found that growth is lower when natural … which these three variables can impact growth, but has tended to address them separately. In this paper we argue that … corruption and education are interrelated and that both crucially depend on a country's endowment of natural resources. The key …
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The estimation of the relationship between education and economic growth is marked by contradictions. These …, makes it possible to confirm or not the positive relationship between education and growth. Taking into account the … endogeneity of education, we measure a positive effect of qualitative indicators of human capital and the growth of countries …
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used in the abatement sector determines the existence and the direction of the growth-effect. A tighter environmental tax …
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an income distribution and growth model. The reason to introduce capital scrapping results from the intuition of some …
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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that inherited humain capital is a powerful vector of inequality formation and persistence, irrespective of its links with financial wealth endowment. This paper argues that the agents who inherit a low level of human capital bear a greater utility...
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