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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility:A Unified Theory of the Economic andDemographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individualsmake optimal decisions about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity ofthe investments in their own education. These decisions are affected by different dimensionsof mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862590
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility : A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316935
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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity ofSkilled Labor
Dupuy, Arnaud; Marey, Philip S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters ofskilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workerschanges proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affectthe curvature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863221
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
economic growth and development. In this chapter we surveyimportant contributions in the field by focussing on the basic … growth policy...<br< …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863368
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777881
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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765316
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco - 2015
literature. This exercise reveals that differences in productivity growth across sectors, combined with differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024919
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco - 2015
There is a growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well … flexible sector more intensive in the input that becomes more abundant. As a result, growth rates of sectoral capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024921
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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity of Skilled Labor
Dupuy, Arnaud; Marey, Philip - 2021
Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affect the curvature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317150
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Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy
Grossmann, Volker - 2010
The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141717