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In this paper, we test whether the growth experience of a sample of OECD countries over the past three decades is more … consistent with the human-capital augmented Solow model of exogenous growth, or with an endogenous growth model à la Uzawa … implied by these two models to discriminate between them. Using pooled crosscountry time-series data, we specify our growth …
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This paper presents empirical estimates of human-capital augmented growth equations for a panel of 21 OECD countries … growth model assumptions with the needs of panel data regressions. Unlike several previous studies, our results point to a … positive and significant impact of human capital accumulation to output per capita growth. The estimated long-run effect on …
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economic growth. The theoretical literature has treated these two channels separately, with natural resources affecting growth … that in turn affect growth. Whether natural resources stimulate growth or induce a poverty-trap crucially depends on … inequality and higher cost of political participation, a high-growth and a poverty-trap equilibrium co-exist even with abundant …
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We discuss a unified theory of directed technological change and technology adoption that can shed light on the causes of persistent productivity differences across countries. In our model, new technologies are designed in advanced countries and diffuse endogenously to less developed countries....
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This paper studies the e¤ects of distortionary taxes and public in- vestment in an endogenous growth OLG model with … knowledge trans- mission. Fiscal policy a¤ects growth in two respects: .rst, work time reacts to variations of prospective tax … generations, and are not necessarily growth-improving with respect to a pure private system. Non-Ramsey policies that shift the …
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If government revenues from a flat-rate income tax are spent on public factors and public factors are used for human capital production and human capital is used for the production of technical progress, then a higher rate of taxation will lead to a higher rate of technical progress if steady...
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This paper studies the effects of distortionary taxes and public investment in an endogenous growth OLG model with … knowledge transmission. Fiscal policy affects growth in two respects: First, work time reacts to variations of prospective tax … generations, and are not necessarily growth-improving with respect to a pure private system. Non-Ramsey policies that shift the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561213
Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
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dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous economic growth and heterogeneous overlapping generations. We calibrate the … model for the US economy and obtain the following results. First, the effect of a decline in population growth on labor … productivity growth is positive and quantitatively significant. In our benchmark, it is predicted to increase from an average …
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-Saharan Africa have enjoyed significantly higher investments and growth rates, primarily fueled by the expanding fiscal space of the … post-HIP C era. Despite these post-HIPC growth rebounds, the region is not likely to meet the Millennium Development Goals … (MDGs). Long-term growth projections from a simple macroeconomic model, which is applied to Ethiopia, suggest that prospects …
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