for illustrative purposes. The resulting dynamics reproduce a long period of stagnant growth as well as an endogenous and … rapid transition to a situation characterized by permanent growth. This transition can be interpreted as industrial …

formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … growth regime in which lower net fertility is associated with the acquisition of human capital and improved living standards …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …

literature. This exercise reveals that differences in productivity growth across sectors, combined with differences in …

There is a growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well … production in the more flexible sector more intensive in the input that becomes more abundant. As a result, growth rates of …

economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions in the field by focussing on the basic … structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for … growth policy. We address issues like the scale effect problem, directed technological change to understand the evolution of …

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth … heterogeneous agents and entrepreneurial innovations in which any form of scale effect is absent. A higher population growth rate … has a negligible, possibly negative effect on the long-run growth rate of per capita income. Long-run growth is sustained …

The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures …