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The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
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The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures …
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in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to …
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We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on … growth rates is consistent with the main implication of certain endogenous growth models, such as the AK model. …
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role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … the same growth performance without any increase in the rate of aggregate investment. This has important implications for …
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endogenous growth approach – will be contrasted with the Schumpeterian and evolutionary views pointing to the role of … capabilities and knowledge, considered as key inputs to foster economic growth. Then, attention will be turned to structural change …
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can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher …
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literature. This exercise reveals that differences in productivity growth across sectors, combined with differences in …
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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 …
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This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting structural change that is arguably needed to put the economy back into the right track. For this purpose we calibrate a model with different equilibria descriptive of the labor...
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