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Eaton, Jonathan - 2012

We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...

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Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth : Theory and Evidence from the International Experience

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2021

the downward trends in family formation and fertility worldwide, and for a slowdown in the rates of savings and economic …

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Population and Ideas : A Theory of Endogenous Growth

Jones, Charles I. - 2021

Why do economies exhibit sustained growth in per capita income? This paper argues that endogenous fertility and … increasing returns to scale are the fundamental ingredients in understanding endogenous growth. Endogenous fertility leads the … fundamental insight of the idea-based growth literature according to this view. Endogenous fertility together with the increasing …

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Crowdfunding Scientific Research

Sauermann, Henry - 2018

Crowdfunding may provide much-needed financial resources, yet there is little systematic evidence on the potential of crowdfunding for scientific research. We first briefly review prior research on crowdfunding and give an overview of dedicated platforms for crowdfunding research. We then...

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Technology and Skill : Twin Engines of Growth

Stokey, Nancy L. - 2018

A model is developed in which two complementary forms of investment contribute to growth—technology and skill acquisition, and growth takes two forms—TFP and variety growth. The rate of TFP growth depends more heavily on the parameters governing skill accumulation, while variety growth...

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Long-Run Tax Incidence in a Human Capital-Based Endogenous Growth Model with Labor-Market Frictions

Chen, Been-Lon - 2019

In a second-best optimal growth setup with only factor taxes, it is in general optimal to fully replace capital by labor income taxation in the long run. We revisit this important issue by developing a human capital-based endogenous growth model with frictional labor search, allowing each firm...

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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...

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Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development : Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

Endogenous growth models raise fundamental questions about the nature of human creativity, and the sorts of resources, skills, and knowledge inputs that shift the frontier of technology and production possibilities. Many argue that the nature of early British industrialization supports the...

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Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production : Two Centuries of International Evidence

Madsen, Jakob B. - 2012

; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas … the quantity and quality of schooling, innovations and growth …

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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kim, Dongwook - 2000

percent difference in average annual real growth ratesþan effect much stronger than changes in average years of schooling, the …

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