Abstract This paper examines the effect of vertical diversity in workers' skill on the long-run growth rate of an …&D sector is submodular. By adopting Grossman and Maggi's (2000) model to a framework of growth, it shows first that diversity … is conducive to growth. As the main innovation, a notion of communication gap is introduced among workers. It is shown …

(both the size and the 'direction') on the long-run growth driven by human capital accumulation à la Lucas (1988), when the …. decreases) the BGP rate of growth. When abatement services are produced with the final output, the environmental taxation does … not influence growth. …

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …

used in the abatement sector determines the existence and the direction of the growth-effect. A tighter environmental tax …

growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We … tolerance toward homosexuals is negatively related to growth. For tolerance toward people of a different race, we do not find …

growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We … tolerance toward homosexuals is negatively related to growth. For tolerance toward people of a different race, we do not find …

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … factors that have governed the pace of the transition from stagnation to growth and have thus contributed to contemporary … variation in economic development. It uncovers the forces that have sparked the emergence of multiple growth regimes and …