The allocation of talent in a society is an important determinant of productivity and growth. I study the informational role of education on the allocation of talent in a two-sector model where education provides workers information about their abilities. When workers and firms are equally...

This study explains the evolution of wage inequality over the last 30 years and supports this explanation with evidence. At each level of schooling, a faster rate of technological progress weakens the link between schooling and work and increases the unknown needed to cope with during one's...

In the context of a human capital based growth model, we show the essential role of labor mobility in equalizing income levels for countries that start off from different initial income positions. Human capital externalities cum labor mobility are the driving forces behind the income level...

The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations economies with intergenerational transfers carried out in the form of bequest and investment in human capital. We examine in competitive equilibrium the optimal provision of education with and without capital markets integration....

The dynamic multi-country model developed in this paper focuses on the interaction between education, international trade and economic growth. The model distinguishes between two froms of human capital, knowledge and efucation. Both are required in production. The objective is to examine how...

The desirability of Government intervention in the functioning of a competitive economy arises in cases where the attained competitive equilibria are inefficient or fail to achieve certain important social goals. In the twentieth century, we witnessed a worldwide phenomena of intervention by...