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Knowledge, Capabilities and Human Capital Formation in Economic Growth
David, Paul A. - 2000
of education in economic growth among the developed economies with the conclusions derived through more detailed analyses … proposals. These would reform tax treatment of education and training investments by residents and immigrants alike; subsidise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115466
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Knowledge, Capabilities and Human Capital Formation in Economic Growth
David, Paul A - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2000
of education in economic growth among the developed economies with the conclusions derived through more detailed analyses … proposals. These would reform tax treatment of education and training investments by residents and immigrants alike; subsidise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005176925
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Education and Training in a Model of Endogenous Growth with Creative Wear-and-Tear
Zon, Adriaan Van; Antonietti, Roberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007
How does the rate at which firms adopt new technologies affect the level of education and training of a country … would be the optimum level of education spending in front of a faster arrival of new technologies? This paper tries to … answer these questions by developing an endogenous growth model with creative 'wear and tear' in which general education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786739
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Endogenous Growth with Public Factors and Heterogeneous Human Capital Producers
Thomas, Ziesemer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
If government revenues from a flat-rate income tax are spent on public factors and public factors are used for human capital production and human capital is used for the production of technical progress, then a higher rate of taxation will lead to a higher rate of technical progress if steady...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108048
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Technological change and the wealth of nations
Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
We discuss a unified theory of directed technological change and technology adoption that can shed light on the causes of persistent productivity differences across countries. In our model, new technologies are designed in advanced countries and diffuse endogenously to less developed countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772064
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R&D, Competition and Growth with Human Capital Accumulation Revisited
Bianco, Dominique - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 148 (2012) 4, pp. 477-495
In this paper, we have presented a generalization of Bucci's (2003) model in which have disentangled the monopolistic mark-up in the intermediate goods sector, the intermediate goods share in the final output and the returns to specialization in order to have a better measurement of competition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933292
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R&D, Competition and Growth with Human Capital Accumulation Revisited
Bianco, Dominique - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 148 (2012) IV, pp. 477-495
In this paper, we have presented a generalization of Bucci's (2003) model in which have disentangled the monopolistic mark-up in the intermediate goods sector, the intermediate goods share in the final output and the returns to specialization in order to have a better measurement of competition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722011
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Human Capital Dispersion and Incentives to Innovate
Iacopetta, Maurizio - 2007
Do policies that alter the allocation of human capital across individuals affect the innovation capacity of an economy? To answer this question, I extend Romer's (1990) growth model to allow for individual heterogeneity. I find that the value of an invention rises with equality. If skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059132
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Market Power, Human Capital and Growth
BUCCI, Alberto - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2002
In this paper we study the economic determinants of the inter-sectoral distribution of skilled workers and the long-run consequences of imperfect competition on growth within an R&D-based growth model with human capital accumulation. We find that steady-state growth is driven only by incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985276
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Human capital, product market power and economic growth
BUCCI, Alberto - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2004
to invest in education. We also find that not only the type of technology employed in the final output production, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007229