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An Economic Growth Model with Education and Industriousness

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  • Nobuhiro Hobara

    (Graduate School of Tokyo University of Social Welfare, Japan)

  • Shiro Kuwahara

    (University of Hyogo, Japan)

Abstract

This study investigates the relationships between long-run growth, education, and “industriousness” using an extended Uzawa-Lucas model with labor-leisure choice, where “industriousness” is captured by the propensity for labor-leisure choice. The extension describes shifts from economic stagnation to long-run economic growth through the structural change of “industriousness,” a growth path within the de Vries’ “industrious revolution.” A domain that generates multiple steady states exists in the middle range of the industriousness parameter, implying the existence of middle-income traps. Although the range is narrow, it can be broadened by, for example, higher population growth.

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  • Nobuhiro Hobara & Shiro Kuwahara, 2023. "An Economic Growth Model with Education and Industriousness," Journal of Economic Development, The Economic Research Institute, Chung-Ang University, vol. 48(1), pages 35-57.
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    • E13 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Neoclassical
    • E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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