Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing … areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which … constrained the opportunities of innovative firms for equity-based growth and the incentives for academic brains to set up in …

factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to … for both growth and inequality. Calibrated TFP growth is consistent with the results from nonparametric growth accounting … more problems to modelling inequality than with growth: in particular, the main models in the literature, which take skill …

firms, the flow of technology and the migration of people. These rules have to make sure that individuals, individual … whether new technology is found. Except for TRIMS, an international investment code has not been established. Conventions have …

of the region in the light of the theories of economic growth and human capital and their empirical tests. It concludes … growth potential derived from the region's favourable endowment with human capital and implementing growth-enhancing economic …

neoclassical growth model. …

fallacies and (ii) not really helpful for discriminating between neoclassical and endogenous growth models. …

educational factors on economic growth. First an overview of the market for skills and the evolution of labour productivity in … Germany is given. Then the stylized facts of the German case are analyzed using a modified growth model featuring overlapping … generations. It is shown that societies facing a demographic shock basically have two options. They either accept the growth …