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This paper reconsiders the effects of population growth on per-capita income growth within a Romerian (1990)-type endogenous growth model with human capital accumulation. One important novelty of our contribution is that in the human capital accumulation equation we explicitly consider the...
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We build a generalised growth model of horizontal product innovation with human capital accumulation in which the monopolistic mark-up set in the uncompetitive sector and the degree of returns to specialization are disentangled. We find that product market power has a positive growth effect when...
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This paper studies the economic determinants of the inter-sectoral allocation of skills within an R&Dbased growth model with human capital accumulation. I find that steady-state growth is driven only by incentives to accumulate skills and is independent of scale effects. In the model imperfect...
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This paper studies the economic determinants of the inter-sectoral allocation of skills within an R&Dbased growth model with human capital accumulation and imperfect competition. Using an aggregateR&D technology displaying constant returns to scale in human capital, I find that steady-state...
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Achieving the objective of making the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy is not an easy task, as it requires increasing levels of collaboration between academics and policy-makers. The Sapir Report (2004) represents an important step in this direction,...
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This paper studies the long-run consequences of imperfect competition on growth and the sectoral distribution of skills within an R&D-based growth model with human capital accumulation. We find that steady-state growth is driven only by incentives to accumulate skills. In the model imperfect...
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This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the spouses as a sequential game in which the spouse who...
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