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Knowledge, Capabilities and Human Capital Formation in Economic Growth
David, Paul A. - 2000
of education in economic growth among the developed economies with the conclusions derived through more detailed analyses … proposals. These would reform tax treatment of education and training investments by residents and immigrants alike; subsidise …
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R&D, Competition and Growth with Human Capital Accumulation Revisited
Bianco, Dominique - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 148 (2012) 4, pp. 477-495
In this paper, we have presented a generalization of Bucci's (2003) model in which have disentangled the monopolistic mark-up in the intermediate goods sector, the intermediate goods share in the final output and the returns to specialization in order to have a better measurement of competition....
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Growth maximising patent lifetime
Bucci, Alberto; Saglam, H. C. - 2000
Using a vertical differentiation model of endogenous growth with stochastic R&D activity, we characterise the optimal patent lifetime a government would set in order to maximise economic growth. We show that a finite patent lifetime does exist and is unique provided that the expected rate of...
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How to promote R&D-based growth? : public education expenditure on scientists and engineers versus R&D subsidies
Grossmann, Volker - 2004
evaluates the positive and normative implications of R&D subsidies and compares them with the effects of public education policy … engineering (S&E) skills, where individuals endogenously choose the type of education, and allows for heterogeneity in individual … publicly provided education targeted to S&E skills. Finally, the optimal structure of public education spending on different …
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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation: Which Technologies? Which Skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Grégoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - 2022
The costs of low-carbon energy fell dramatically over the past decade, leading to rapid growth in its deployment. However, many challenges remain to deploy low-carbon energy at a scale necessary to meet net zero carbon emission targets. We argue that developing complementary technologies and...
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Technological Change, Human Capital Structure, and Multiple Growth Paths
Kim, Yong Jin; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2009
This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human capital in the uncertain environments of technology. The uncertainty comes from two sources; the possibility of a technology advance and the characteristics of new...
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On scale effects, market power and growth when human and technological capital are complements
Bucci, Alberto - 2000
In this paper we build an endogenous growth model where human capital and ideas are complements in the long-run equilibrium and technological progress takes the form of a continuous increase in the number of horizontally differentiated varieties of intermediate inputs. One peculiarity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608626
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Poverty, human capital, life-cycle and the tax and transfer bases: The role of education for development and international competition
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … consumption and saving. An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private …
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Credit constraints and investment in human capital: training evidence from transition economies
Popov, Alexander - 2013
effect is stronger in education-intensive industries and in industries facing good global growth opportunities. To address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605651
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A Partial Identification Approach to Identifying the Determinants of Human Capital Accumulation: An Application to Teachers
Mehta, Nirav - 2022
This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers’ careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learning-by-Doing (LBD) and...
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