• Medientyp: Bericht; E-Book
  • Titel: Innovative and absorptive capacity effects of education in a small open economy
  • Beteiligte: Bye, Brita [Verfasser:in]; Fæhn, Taran [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Oslo: Statistics Norway, Research Department, 2012
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: Human capital ; Absorptive capacity ; Innovation ; O30 ; Research and Development ; Endogenous growth ; Computable general equilibrium model ; O41
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  • Beschreibung: Evidence points to relatively low supply elasticities for workers skilled for research and development (R&D), which can hamper innovation and growth. Increasing the supply of R&D skills will expand an economy's innovative capacity. A simultaneous effect of increased education, which is particularly important for small, open economies, is to raise final goods producers' capacity to absorb cross-border knowledge spillovers. In a calibrated endogenous growth model for Norway, we find that increasing the share of highly educated workers has pronounced absorptive capacity effects that partially crowd out R&D-based innovation. Both innovative and absorptive capacity expansions contribute to higher growth and welfare.
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