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The Human Capital Constraint: Of Increasing Returns, Education Choice and Coordination Failure

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  • Aiyar Shekhar

    (International Monetary Fund)

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If technological innovations in the North can be costlessly imitated by educated workers in the South, and if education decisions are endogenous, why aren't all countries well-educated and rich? This paper explores a possible answer: if technologically advanced sectors, operating under increasing returns to scale, need a minimum pool of educated workers to commence production, then coordination failure can arise in the choice of education. A simple two-sector model is shown to yield multiple equilibria: countries that perform well educationally and adopt technology successfully can co-exist with countries that fail in both endeavors.

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  • Aiyar Shekhar, 2003. "The Human Capital Constraint: Of Increasing Returns, Education Choice and Coordination Failure," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, De Gruyter, vol. 3(1), pages 1-16, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:bejmac:v:topics.3:y:2003:i:1:n:2
    DOI: 10.2202/1534-5998.1071
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