Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Reto Foellmi () and Josef Zweimüller ()

No 472, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Kaldor facts; balanced growth; structural change; innovation; hierarchic preferences; demand externalities; multiple equilibria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O40 O11 O31 L16 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2002-04
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