This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel’s...

Die bisherigen Daten scheinen auf eine lediglich begrenzte Einkommenskonvergenz zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland anstatt auf eine Angleichung in absehbarer Zeit hinzudeuten. In diesem Beitrag konzentrieren sich die Autoren auf die Frage, ob in Deutschland zukünftig vollständige Konvergenz der...

This paper examines under which conditions religious denomination affects public spending on schooling and educational performance. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of public school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82...

We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...

We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...

We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...

This paper develops a theory in which oligarchic ownership of land or other natural resources may impede entrepreneurship in the manufacturing sector and may thereby retard structural change and economic development. We show that, due to oligopsony power of owners in the agricultural labor...

This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technologicalprogress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel’s...

We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a twosector,overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the nontradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that firms...

We theoretically investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration on the dynamic interaction between migration flows, capital formation, and the price for housing services. The nature of this interaction depends on initial conditions at the time of labor market integration. In...