This paper analyzes the effects of structural change on the rates of growth of wages, employment and per-capita income in low-income countries, their dualistic structure shown by a Lewis-type two-sector model. Structural change is measured by the varying shares of sectoral employment in total...

An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...

India has been posting high growth figures on one hand, while on the other; it is recording an increase in unemployment rate. The growth of the country is not being able to absorb the growing labour force. In this paper, we develop a two-sector macro-economic model that serves us two purposes....

Mature economies may experience fl uctuations, but the average medium and long run growth rate matches the natural rate. Like Kaldor's neo-Keynesian models, the Marx-Goodwin tradition explains this outcome by endogenizing the distribution of income and assuming that the accumulation of capital...

The article examines a previous contribution to the problems of economic dualism by Vera Lutz, which represents a new and independent approach. The author first moves some criticisms to Lutz' diagnosis of dualism, trying to show that the emphasis laid by her on the wage level as a cause of...

Although dual economy models are widely recognized for their explanatory power and applications in development economics, their lack of micro-economic foundations and the associated loss of clarity has led to mainstream economists underplaying their importance. By providing a micro-economic...

It has been widely recognized that China has had a large pool of surplus labour. However, despite its significant implications for wage levels and the Chinese economy, the current debates yield conflicting results as to whether the Lewis turning point has been reached. This paper clarifies a...

A growth model is developed for an open dual economy. The economy expands owing to a higher growth rate of labour productivity in the modern sector through the Kaldor-Verdoorn channel and higher effective demand through a Keynesian channel. The model incorporates a retardation mechanism...

The paper addresses the impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita output and income, with particular emphasis on the role of labor mobility between the formal and informal sectors, and the impact of the epidemic on investment decisions. The study finds that HIV/AIDS affects both the supply of labor and...

Pervasive credit constraints have been seen as major sources of slow growth in developing economies. This paper clarifies a mechanism through which an inefficient financial system can reduce productivity growth. Using a two-sector model, second, we examine the implications for employment and the...