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Description:
Under the condition that education sector uses human capital as the only input of production, human capital could flow out from final goods sector to education sector eternally, which is defined to be perpetual structural change in the present paper. The emergence of perpetual structural change implies that there are two stable steady states in Uzawa-Lucas model. One has fast human capital accumulation, and the other has slow human capital accumulation. Nevertheless, fast human capital accumulation is not necessarily associated with fast economic growth, nor increases consumer welfare definitely. This conclusion is consistent with the empirical findings that there is no relationship between growth in years of schooling and per capita GDP growth. Moreover, we also find that the indeterminacy of the initial value of the wage rate for human capital is the root of global and local equilibrium indeterminacy, which could arise even though there are neither external effects nor market imperfections in the present paper