unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of … productivity. However, if human capital matters, unemployment has a long-run effect on the level of productivity. Moreover, if we …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher …

that this will lead to a dynamic factor model with the dominant unit acting as the factor. The problems of estimation and … documented by Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to modelling of real GDP growth and investment-output ratios … dominant effects are found. The results also suggest that increase in investment as a share of GDP predict higher growth rate …

things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage …. Using foreign direct investment (FDI) as a measure for capital flows, we present empirical evidence which largely confirms … thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … well. By implication, policies that stimulate investment and R&D and policies that affect the size of the labor force may … productivity. …

our key results to alternative data sets. -- China ; investment ; growth ; productivity ; capital market distortions … 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 …