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By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers ́productivity but also accelerated innovative...
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We introduce publicly funded education into R&D based economic growth theory. Our framework allows us to i) explicitly … describe a realistic process of human capital accumulation within these types of growth models, ii) reconcile semi …-endogenous growth theory with the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic development and population growth, iii) revise …
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We introduce publicly funded education into R&D-based economic growth theory. Our framework allows us to i) explicitly … describe a realistic process of human capital accumulation within these types of growth models, ii) reconcile semi …-endogenous growth theory with the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic development and population growth, and iii …
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This paper contributes to the literature on economic growth by seeking to join several lines of research on structural … demand factors in a model of export-led growth, on the other hand. Balance-of-payments constraints influence the adoption of … and human capital is likewise revealed to be crucial for growth, both results having important policy implications …
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This paper studies the effects of distortionary taxes and public investment in an endogenous growth OLG model with … knowledge transmission. Fiscal policy aspects growth in two respects: first, work time reacts to variations of prospective tax … generations, and are not necessarily growth-improving with respect to a pure private system. Non-Ramsey policies that shift the …
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We show that in a endogenous growth model with human accumulation calibrated to Bulgarian data under the progressive … recent findings in Chen and Guo (2015) in the context of an AK endogenous growth model. Also, the findings are in contrast to …
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imperfect credit markets and high economic growth rates. In this paper, we analyze the role of parental altruism on economic … growth and dynamic efficiency, especially when credit markets for education loans are missing. We demonstrate conditions … under which missing or imperfect credit markets increase economic growth and do not hinder dynamic efficiency. We also show …
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A simple classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution is developed in which education transforms low …-skilled wages and profit income. We analyze the implications for class divisions, growth and distribution, of the transformation of … education can have a positive effect on growth but by altering the distribution of income rather than by fostering technological …
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This paper combines three prototype endogenous growth models, the models with human capital accumulation introduced by … order to investigate how these three engines of growth interact. We show that a subsidy to human capital accumulation has a … around the steady growth path. It suggests that Schumpeterian growth models `a la Howitt [1999] should share the locally …
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