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We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on … growth rates is consistent with the main implication of certain endogenous growth models, such as the AK model. …
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The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
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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 …
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in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to …
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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 … the same growth performance without any increase in the rate of aggregate investment. This has important implications for …
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We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the … massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that …
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The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures …
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Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than...
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The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030884
We study a multi-sector model of growth with differences in TFP growth rates across sectors and derive sufficient … conditions for the coexistence of structural change, characterized by sectoral labor reallocation, and balanced aggregate growth … moves to low-growth sectors. In the limit all employment converges to two sectors, the slowest-growing consumption …
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