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Health, labour productivity and growth

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Muysken, Joan
Yetkiner, I. Hakan
Ziesemer, Thomas (Groningen University)

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Under the standard neo-classical growth framework, conditional convergence studies assume that a country with a higher initial human capital among others \\\'performs\\\' better. Nevertheless the growth implications of health, another component of human capital, compared to education, have not been investigated thoroughly within the optimum growth framework yet. The aim of this study is to show rigorously the positive association between per capita income and health status of an economy and thereby provide a theoretical background for using \\\'health\\\' variables in conditional convergence analyses. This positive relationship between health and per capita output is first shown in the standard neo-classical growth framework where the health status is exogenously given. Endogenising health then enables us to analyse the impact of optimal expenditure on health care on steady state growth and transition dynamics

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Paper provided by University of Groningen, CCSO Centre for Economic Research in its series CCSO Working Papers with number 200015.

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  1. Erkan Erdil & I. Hakan Yetkiner, 2004. "A Panel Data Approach for Income-Health Causality," Working Papers FNU-47, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Apr 2004. [Downloadable!]
  2. Zon ,Adriaan,van & Muysken ,Joan, 2003. "Health as a Principal Determinant of Economic Growth," Research Memoranda 024, Maastricht : MERIT, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology. [Downloadable!]
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