Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Reto Foellmi () and Josef Zweimüller ()

No iewwp111, IEW - Working Papers from Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW

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 co-exist, 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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Working Paper: Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth (2002)
Working Paper: Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth (2002)
Working Paper: Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth (2006)
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