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Growth, Development, and Technological Change

Grossmann, Volker - 2007

The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of …

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Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector

Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015

both trade and foreign direct investment and thereby get a better understanding of complex international investment, trade … and FDI dynamics – including with respect to the envisaged Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership …

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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups : An Agenda for New Research

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010

In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias - 2014

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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Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare

Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

their status-seeking activities. As prosocial relationships generate positive externalities whereas status …-seeking activities generate negative preference externalities, technological advance may lead to a particular type of "decoupling" of …

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Changes in China's Wage Structure

Ge, Suqin - 2012

Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202 percent, accompanied by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition...

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Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts

Robalino, David A. - 2020

-linked externalities (JLEs). JLEs emerge when wages exceed the opportunity cost of labor (labor externalities), or when there are social … gains from creating better jobs for some classes of worker, such as women or youth (social externalities). Like all … externalities, JLEs create a gap between private and social rates of return. Investments can be socially profitable (once the …

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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing

Marconi, Gabriele - 2015

We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...

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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills

Borissov, Kirill - 2016

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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Informality and Long-Run Growth

Docquier, Frédéric - 2014

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor …

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