This paper presents an innovation driven endogenous growth model, where firms and unions bargain over wages. We find … unemployment for a given rate of economic growth. The increase in labor resources will in turn also yield faster growth rates in a …

This paper attempts to explain the growth of labour productivity through (inter)national spillovers from R&D and … impact on productivity growth, especially in downswings …

increasing globalisation. In this paper we extend this type of analysis and integrate the effects on productivity growth …, theoretically and empirically. Productivity growth is introduced into the theoretical model making use of the Verdoorn effect or of … Kaldor's technical progress function and hence of a positive relationship between GDP or capital stock growth and …

The paper sets up a two-region endogenous growth model to discuss growth and regional convergence of unified Germany …

It is obvious that the German economy exhibits a significant decline in economic growth during the last two decades … only one reason of this decline. In this study we follow the new growth theory and develop and com-pare indicators for the … lower performance of German R&D and could, therefore, possibly explain the decline of the German growth trend. …

relationship between public goods institutions, human capital, and growth. More broadly, we provide evidence on the origins of …

Discussion on the possibilities for and barriers to income convergence and catch-up growth is at the heart of the … productivity growth in Europe, using the most recent Cambridge Econometrics regional database, EU KLEMS growth and productivity … accounts and EuroStat R&D data. We apply a reduced-form empirical specification for semi-endogenous productivity growth that …

of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include … be less (and not more) able to account for the cross-country growth performance of Austria and Germany when human capital … cross country growth between these two neighboring countries with similar political and institutional background. …