economic growth and points to the importance of tertiary education in the explanation of growth for developing countries. In … previous literature, our results show that, under broad and plausible model parameterizations, the marginal growth effect of …

constraint for the growth of southern Italy’s mainly as a consequence of the deep process of governmental decentralization that … began in the1970s. We formalize this hypothesis by using an endogenous growth model with public capital. In this model, the … managed locally. To assess the role of decentralization as a trigger of the influence of local social capital on growth, we …

This paper presents a New Economic Geography model of structural change, agglomeration and growth. By assuming the same … time. Second, the introduction of non-homotheticity introduces a new channel through which growth is affected by trade … costs and agglomeration. In particular, integration is always growth-enhancing while agglomeration is growth-detrimental. …

balanced growth path properties of this economy, and focus on the sensitiveness of its qualitative dynamic behaviour, according … to different subsets in the parameters space. The model is able to perform both endogenous growth and sustainability of …

employment protection legislation has a negative and significant effect on growth of value added and hours of work in more human …

We build a growth model in which tourism development generates pollution while tourists are pollution adverse. We … establish that long run positive growth exists only for a particular value of tourists pollution adversion. Furthermore, we show … that an intensive use of facilities is associated with a lower growth rate for destinations specialized in green tourism …

The paper examines the relationship between human capital and productivity growth with reference to the Italian regions … capital as a determinant of growth, while the other, inspired by Nelson and Phelps, emphasizes the role of the stock in …-up potential. In particular we expect the Nelson-Phelps hypothesis to be more relevant in the industrial sector where innovation is …

The picture on disparities in productivity growth and in unemployment across European regions reveals the existence of … in the growth and employment regional performances. The main theoretical hypotheses upon which our empirical … on aggregate growth is studied. Part of our evidence is based on the use of cluster analysis to identify subsets of …

This paper analyses the growth effects of high levels of human capital at the industry level. By favouring technology … regions, the results show positive and significant effects of human capital levels and accumulation on value added growth …. This result is robust to a series of sensitivity checks such as measures of productivity growth and different indicators of …