Hochentwickelte Industriestaaten bedürfen permanenter Innovation, um weiterhin wachsen zu können. Nur dadurch ist es möglich, auf dem Weltmarkt Preise zu erzielen, die günstige Terms of Trade und ein hohes Lohnniveau ermöglichen. Die Förderung von Innovation wird damit zu einer zentralen...

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends...

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised Solow-type growth model yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence on the growth rate and the level of productivity....