To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income quality, we carefully endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity. In...

This paper examines how the accumulation of human capital determines both a country's growth rate and income inequality. In contrast to previous work, we do not rely on credit market imperfections or political economy arguments. The insight of this model is that inequality is determined by the...

This paper uses the concept of ‘growth regimes’ to revisit the study of the determinants of the declining labour share in advanced economies. We examine a panel of OECD countries with aggregate and industry level data and explore the effects of technological progress on the labour income...

To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity.1 In...