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growth should have significant effects on macro variables, including economic growth. But these effects can be complicated …. The large size of the agricultural sector does not necessarily imply that it must be a leading sector for economic growth …. Expanding a low-productivity sector might not be unambiguously good for growth. Moreover, there are issues of reverse causation …
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capital accumulation is not necessarily associated with fast economic growth, nor increases consumer welfare definitely. This … conclusion is consistent with the empirical findings that there is no relationship between growth in years of schooling and per … capita GDP growth. Moreover, we also find that the indeterminacy of the initial value of the wage rate for human capital is …
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primary driving forces, sector-biased productivity growth and sectoral trade integration. We calibrate the model to the same … countries used to document our patterns. We find that sector-biased productivity growth is important for deindustrialization by …
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This paper analyzes the effects of structural change on the rates of growth of wages, employment and per-capita income … by the varying shares of sectoral employment in total employment. It is shown that the growth rates of GDP and per … different growth dynamics: high but falling growth rates under dualistic development with labour surplus, low but rising growth …
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This paper presents a model which takes into account two main factors that have been partially neglected by the economic development literature: the environmental externalities of human activities and agents' heterogeneity in terms of asset endowment and, consequently, in terms of income source...
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Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growth and qualitative transformations of … productivity growth, dynamic panel estimations are applied to a standard growth model modified to include specific structural … results give empirical substance to the evolutionary emphasis on Schumpeterian development as opposed to mere aggregate growth. …
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This paper develops an overlapping generations model that incorporates two-sector (market and non-market) production, sexual difference, and fertility choice. Our model could explain the joint evolution of production structure, household time allocation, and fertility broadly observed in the...
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The U.S. went through a remarkable structural transformation between 1800 and 2000. In 1800 the majority of people worked in agriculture. Barely anyone did by 2000. What caused the rapid demise of agriculture in the economy? The analysis here concentrates on the development of new consumer goods...
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Vulnerability to reduction of natural capital depends on defensive substitution possibilities that, in turn, are affected by the availability of other productive factors. However in several developing countries asset distribution tends to be highly skewed. Taking into account these elements,...
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