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This paper investigates the effects of skill bias technical change at the frontier on the evolution of output and human capital in the adopting countries. The framework introduces a novel feature by connecting the direction of technology adoption to a sequential process of skill accumulation,...
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We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …
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contrast to conventional wisdom, our theory predicts that faster economic growth promotes inequality. Because education and …
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, our theory predicts that faster economic growth promotes inequality. …
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We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer (1990). In the first …
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We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer [Romer, P. (1990 …
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, income distribution and employment rate are endogenous, and depend on the capitalists' discount rate, the institutional …-capita growth, the employment rate and the labor share; (v) an increase in workers' bargaining strength moderately raises the labor … share and moderately decreases per-capita growth, while sharply reducing employment: quarterly US fluctuations (1948 …
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What are the implications of (endogenous) directed technical change for the design of redistributive income taxes? I study this question in a Mirrleesian economy augmented to include endogenous technology development and adoption choices by firms. Under certain conditions, any progressive tax...
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This paper develops a static model of endogenous task-based technical progress to study how factor scarcity induces technological progress and changes in factor prices. The equilibrium technology is multi-dimensional and not strongly factor-saving in the sense of Acemoglu (2010). Nevertheless,...
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