Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in … productivity growth. …

The two aspects of research and development (R&D) involving the stimulation of innovation and the facilitation of …-1990. An empirical framework is used in which innovation and technology transfer provide two potential sources of productivity … productivity sector catch up quickly if they invest heavily in R&D. Findings provide evidence of R&D effects on both the rates of …

Conventional R&D-based growth theory argues that productivity growth is driven by population growth but the data … suggest that the erstwhile positive correlation between population and productivity turned negative during the 20th century … explains why in modern economies high growth of productivity and income is associated with low or negative population growth …

Conventional R&D-based growth theory argues that productivity growth is driven by population growth but the data … suggest that the erstwhile positive correlation between population and productivity turned negative during the 20th century … explains why in modern economies high growth of productivity and income is associated with low or negative population growth …

unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of … productivity. However, if human capital matters, unemployment has a long-run effect on the level of productivity. Moreover, if we …

the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment leads …-run productivity growth. Using panel data from 13 OECD countries from 1960 to 1990, we find evidence that an increase in unemployment … scales down the long-run level of productivity. …