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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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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 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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Starting from a review of the main strands of orthodox and heterodox distribution and growth models and their … variant of heterodox distribution and growth theories, we develop a simple modelling framework in which we can treat these … presented drawing on the relationship between the rate of profit and the rate of growth, as well as on the consideration of one …
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A simple neo-Kaleckian open-economy model is presented and its implications for growth regimes are analyzed. The … incorporating the Harrodian principle of instability and autonomous growth in foreign demand. It is demonstrated that some aspects … average rates of production growth and capital accumulation. However, the long-run impact of a change in the profit share is …
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We introduce a gender wage gap into basic one-good textbook versions of the neo-Kaleckian distribution and growth model … and productivity growth. For the closed economy model, reducing the gender wage gap has no effect on the profit share, and … growth we find an unambiguously expansionary effect of narrowing the gender wage gap on long-run equilibrium capital …
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In a Kaleckian distribution and growth model with workers' debt we examine the short- and long-run effects of three …
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