A model is developed in which two complementary forms of investment contribute to growth--technology and skill acquisition, and growth takes two forms--TFP and variety growth. The rate of TFP growth depends more heavily on the parameters governing skill accumulation, while variety growth...

Technical change, even if it is limited in scope, can have employment, output, price and wage effects that ripple through the whole economy. This paper uses a flexible and tractable framework, with heterogeneous workers and technologies, and many tasks/goods, to analyze the general equilibrium...

This paper studies the interaction between technology, a publicly available input that flows in from abroad, and human capital, a private input that is accumulated domestically, as the twin engines of growth in a developing economy. The model displays two types of long run behavior, depending on...