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This paper uses the neoclassical growth model to examine the extent to which a tax cut pays for itself through higher economic growth. The model yields simple expressions for the steady-state feedback effect of a tax cut. The feedback is surprisingly large: for standard parameter values, half of...
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This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow model that includes accumulation of human as well as physical capital provides an excellent description of the cross-country data. The...
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This paper shows that the effect of capital account liberalization on growth depends upon the environment in which that policy occurs. A theoretical model demonstrates the possibility of an inverted-U shaped relationship between the responsiveness of growth to capital account liberalization and...
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United States, I find no econometric evidence that computer investment is positively linked to TFP growth (over and above its …
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, especially efforts to raise the rate of investment. Recent studies of economic growth have raised a debate over the role played … by the investment rate in the long-run performance of the economy. Evidence from the states suggests that the effects of … physical capital investment …
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investment from the taxation of wage and capital income, encouraging labor supply, and providing insurance against adverse draws …
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It is by now widely recognized that investment decisions play a major role in the determination of individual age …-earnings profiles. The purpose of this paper is to present a simple life-cycle model of investment in human capital in which leisure … choices are explicitly incorporated. In so doing, we integrate two previously disparate branches of life-cycle theory: models …
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We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously performed by labor can be automated and new versions of existing tasks, in which labor has a comparative advantage, can be created. In a static version where capital is fixed and...
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-human capital falls to approximately its initial net of tax level, and steady-state human capital investment plans are therefore …
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This paper analyzes the implications of tax policy for the accumulation of human and physical capital and for the overall productivity level of the economy. A comprehensive income tax, applying to both labour income and capital income. discriminates against investments in human capital relative...
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