Endogenous Structural Change, Aggregate Balanced Growth, and Optimality

Autor: Takeo Hori, Noriko Mizutani, Taisuke Uchino
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Economic Theory. 65(1):125-153
Popis: Developed countries have experienced labor employment shifts from the manufacturing sector to the services sector, which is a process termed structural change. We construct a two-sector endogenous growth model of structural change in which knowledge spillover sustains growth. Our model is consistent with the empirically observed pattern of structural change as well as aggregate balanced growth. In both centralized and decentralized economies, labor employment shifts from a high productivity growth sector to a low productivity growth sector. Because of knowledge spillover, excessive labor is allocated to productivity improvements in the high productivity growth sector. Hence, the decentralized economy is characterized by rapid structural change compared to the optimal allocation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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