• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth
  • Contributor: Foellmi, Reto [Author]; Zweimüller, Josef [Author]
  • imprint: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2002
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: innovation ; structural change ; hierarchic preferences ; balanced growth ; demand externalities ; D91 ; multiple equilibria ; Gleichgewichtiges Wachstum ; O31 ; L16 ; O11 ; Theorie ; O40 ; Strukturwandel ; Kaldor facts
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  • Description: We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs and firms introduce continuously new products. In equilibrium industries with an expanding and those with a declining employment share coexist, and each such industry goes (or has already gone) through a cycle of take-off, maturity, and stagnation. Nonetheless macroeconomic aggregates grow pari passu at a constant rate.
  • Access State: Open Access