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Technological progress takes the form of improvements in the quality of an array of intermediate inputs to production. In an equilibrium that is standard in the literature, all research is carried out by outsiders, and success means that the outsider replaces the incumbent as the industry...
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, the internal effects of education are filtered out using wage functions for individuals. Second, the resulting industry …
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After arguing that the concepts of b-convergence and s-convergence are independently interesting, this paper extends the empirical evidence on regional growth and convergence across the United States, Japan, and five European nations. We confirm that the estimated speeds of convergence are...
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This paper has two purposes. It introduces a direct approach to policy analysis in endogenous growth models - the q-theory approach - and uses this to illustrate several new openness-and-growth links that appear when we enrich the economic content of the early trade and growth models. The...
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This paper studies the distributive effects of growth when different agents' income is drawn from accumulated and non-accumulated factors of production in different proportions. It also notes that political interactions may contribute to determine factor shares and growth when income sources are...
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The concepts of s-convergence, absolute b-convergence and conditional b-convergence are discussed in this paper. The concepts are applied to a variety of data sets that include a large cross section of 110 countries, the sub-sample of OECD countries, the states within the United States, the...
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This paper presents a model in which long-run growth and industrial location are jointly endogenous. Specifically, it introduces Romer-Grossman-Helpman endogenous growth into Krugman’s core-periphery model with footloose labour. The paper focuses on stability of the symmetric equilibrium,...
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reinforcing processes. Industrial agglomeration in one location spurs growth because it reduces the cost of innovation in that … origin of innovation expands, new firms tend to locate close to this sector. The model can be interpreted as illustrating one … mechanism behind the emergence of cities seen as centres for production and innovation, and is consistent with the episodes of …
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emerge. First, minor differences in education technologies, preferences, or wealth, can lead to a high degree of … inequality in education and income more persistent across generations. Whether the same is true of inequality in total wealth … richer communities; thus average academic performance and income growth both fall. Yet it may still be possible for education …
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and general education, with a superior social status attached to general. The resulting dynamic political equilibrium is … best summarized by the ratio of vocational to general education, which we interpret as a measure of the degree of … vocational education at the expense of general. …
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