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In recent years, the role attached to the autonomous components of aggregate demand has attracted rising attention, as testified by the development of the Sraffian Supermulti plier model (SSM) and the attempts to include autonomous demand in the Neo-Kaleckian model. This paper reviews and...
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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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This paper studies the evolution of long-run output and labour productivity growth rates in the G-7 countries during … productivity appears to be behind the slowdown in long-run GDP growth. … the post-war period. We estimate the growth rates consistent with a constant unemployment rate using time …
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We document differences between the evolution of a measure of potential output growth and the evolution of a measure of … potential output per capita growth using time-varying parameter models estimated for four advanced economies (Canada, Germany … growth occurred prior to the Great Recession. However, the potential output per capita growth rate: 1) remained relatively …
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We document that the employment share of high-skill-intensive services is much lower in China than in countries with similar gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. We build a model of structural change with goods and low- and high-skill-intensive services to account for this observation. We...
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We provide two ways to reconcile small values of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) that range between 0.35 and 0.5 with empirical evidence that the IES is large. We do this reconciliation using a model in which all agents have identical preferences and the same access to asset...
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distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the … transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income inequality affects the patterns of growth and international specialization as …
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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary … to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income …
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A simple classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution is developed in which education transforms low …-skilled wages and profit income. We analyze the implications for class divisions, growth and distribution, of the transformation of … education can have a positive effect on growth but by altering the distribution of income rather than by fostering technological …
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overhead managerial labour and direct labour into a neo-Kaleckian growth model with target-return pricing, where an … overhead labour costs in the coevolution of income distribution and economic growth. When overhead labour is taken into account … capacity and in the growth rate of sales expected by firms. We examine the parametric conditions under which the model achieves …
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