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We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …
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capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be …
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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....
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This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation for productivity growth. In...
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Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends...
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The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...
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