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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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productivity gains and demand growth. In this paper we study the interactions between structural change and technological progress … linking structural transformations and sector-specific technological opportunities to aggregate productivity growth. In the … final part we present productivity decompositions using a sectoral innovation taxonomy to study the contribution of …
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In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401020
The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is largely neglected. Job-creation is often thought to be a matter of encouraging more employment on a given capital stock. In contrast, this paper explicitly deals with the long-run...
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The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is largely neglected. Job-creation is often thought to be a matter of encouraging more employment on a given capital stock. In contrast, this paper explicitly deals with the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495336
value is not reflected in measured growth and productivity. To capture the contribution of the "free" Internet, we model the … transaction at production cost. When we incorporate this implicit transaction into U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), productivity …
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We examine the dynamics of ideas production and knowledge-productivity relationship in a panel of 19 OECD countries. A …&D but little support for endogenous growth. Countries with low domestic ideas bases could considerably improve productivity …
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economy, there has been a tragic neglect of low end human capital investment for productivity gains in mass manufacturing …
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Spillovers have usually been undertaken at the country level, the spillover effects can be more definitive only if the analysis is conducted at the industry-level. This paper therefore attempts to identify spillovers by disentangling technological innovations into intra- and inter-national...
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