The aim of this article is to present empirical estimates about the impact of human capital on labor productivity growth in the case of Slovenia. Instead the conventional methodology the methodology principally aimed at estimating the real convergence of labor productivity was used. The basic...

I formulate and estimate a model of externalities within countries and technological interdependence across countries. I find that external returns to scale to physical capital within countries are 8 percent; that a 10 percent increase of total factor productivity of a country's neighbors raises...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the intergenerational transmission mechanisms within a theoretical framework which presumes a heterogeneous family structure. For that, we propose a modified version of the Becker and Tomes model (1986) by assuming that there are two groups of children:...