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Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-Run Growth Without Weak or Strong Scale Effects

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth ("strong scale effect") or the level of per capita income ("weak scale effect"), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical support...

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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth

Grossmann, Volker - 2011

This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel's...

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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth

Strulik, Holger - 2015

ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers …

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Population Density, Optimal Infrastructure and Economic Growth

Deole, Sumit S. - 2015

This paper develops an OLG model with endogenous fertility and education decisions to analyze the impact of …

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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Optimal Higher Education Enrollment and Productivity Externalities in a Two-Sector Model

Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana C. - 2021

We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each sector works with only one type of labor, skilled or unskilled, and individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit...

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Federalism, Fertility and Growth

Borck, Rainald - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and … endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …

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Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy

Grossmann, Volker - 2010

The optimal mix of growth policies is determined within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and accounts for transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...

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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach

Lindner, Ines - 2016

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge exchange. Knowledge in any country depends on the human capital of the countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period...

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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2011

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