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A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector and human … ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and (iii) between growth and unemployment. Key … low, underground employment alleviates unemployment, but the economy grows at lower rates. …
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A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three … between underground employment and unemployment, and (iii) between growth and unemployment. The key assumptions adopted are … underground firms, employ unskilled labour, and do not contribute to growth. Underground employment alleviates unemployment only …
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We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
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where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
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The approach put forward in this article is based on Schumpeter's idea of creative destruction, the competitive process by which entrepreneurs are always looking for new ideas that will render their rivals' ideas obsolete. I present a model in which the rate of economic growth is sensitive to...
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-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation … by increasing employment and productivity in both the modern and traditional sectors. -- entrepreneurship ; economic …
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R&D and entrepreneurship. The optimal allocation between commercializers and inventors depends on the relative strength …
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A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
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We build a novel endogenous growth model with information carrier technology, in which knowledge may be lost in storage and dissemination. In the asymptotic balanced growth path equilibrium, we establish two main findings. First, the growth rate of information carrier technology and the...
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