, we embrace a world that is becoming more connected and complex than ever. With the new technological innovations and …

The neoclassical growth model was extended by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) to estimate the level effects of additional … factors like human capital. We suggest a further extension to capture their permanent growth effects. Time series data from … Fiji are used to show that the growth effect of human capital, although small, is significant. Furthermore, in our sample …

innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labour has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer … schooling level and subsequent growth in rich countries. In particular, we show that in OECD economies it is crucial to isolate …

education in a two-way error correction panel data analysis of cross-country growth for a set of 14 OECD countries. The central … schooling in growth regressions. The results indicate that, overall, human capital indicators based on literacy scores have a … positive and significant effect on the transitory growth path, and on the long run levels of GDP per capita and labor …

This paper tests the growth model of distance to the technological frontier, which states that the closer an economy is … growth. Hence, an economy closer to the technological frontier should invest more in skilled labor since innovation is a …

1870-2009, this paper estimates the productivity growth effects of education for different age groups, through the channels …

Market competition is central to innovative activity, the diffusion process and macro-economic productivity growth …. Productivity growth at all levels comes about through institutional reconfiguration in response to the ongoing market process …. Stable and sustained long-term growth in output requires the continuous creation of new technological and commercial …

When analyzing potential ways to counter climate change, standard models of green growth abstract from investment in … efficiency imposed by thermodynamic laws. In this paper, I develop a growth model that explicitly accounts for endogenous … trigger a full transformation toward green growth. …