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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, … - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739171
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Structural Development Accounting
Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184424
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Misallocation and inequality
Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022
For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
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Capital flows and endogenous growth
Komarov, Evgenij - 2021 - This version: November 18, 2021
So-called "uphill capital flows", i.e. flows of physical capital from relatively poor to rich countries, are a new phenomenon with yet unclear impact. We develop a unified framework incorporating economic institutions, human capital and physical capital to study the interaction of international...
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A Competitive Idea-Based Growth Model with Shrinking Workers’ Income Share
Marchese, Carla - 2016
In this paper we present a model in which endogenous growth arises in competitive markets. Knowledge is described as a labor-augmenting factor used directly in the final goods' production. Firms demand both basic nonrival knowledge contents, which are supplied jointly and inelastically with raw...
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Adult learning, economic growth and the distribution of income
Stauvermann, Peter; Kumar, Ronald Ravinesh - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-12
idea of lifelong learning, but it remains unclear how to finance the education of adult students who are working … mechanism which reduces income inequality and provides an incentive for all adults to invest more in education. As a consequence …
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Poverty, human capital, life-cycle and the tax and transfer bases : the role of education for development and international competition
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … consumption and saving. An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private …
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Credit constraints in education
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2012
We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital. Evidence suggests that credit constraints have recently become important for schooling and other aspects of households' behavior. We highlight the importance of early childhood investments, since their...
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Human capital as engine of growth : the role of knowledge transfers in promoting balanced growth within and across countries
Ehrlich, Isaac; Pei, Yun - 2020
Unlike physical capital, human capital has both embodied and disembodied dimensions. It can be perceived of as skill and acquired knowledge, but also as knowledge spillover effects between overlapping generations and across different skill groups within and across countries. We illustrate the...
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Human capital spending, inequality, and growth in middle-income Asia
Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Lee, Sang-hyop; Park, Donghyun - 2017
Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience of the newly industrialized economies suggests that human capital investments will be a vital ingredient of the transition from middle income to high income. Those investments...
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