The Dual Division of Knowledge and Labor Under the Constraint of the Costs of Systemic Development of the State in the Process of Specialization: Theoretical Results of Its Implications on Optimal Distribution of Wealth and Growth According to the National Accounting Approach

Skandar Fakhfakh ()
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Skandar Fakhfakh: University of Sfax, Technological Pole of Sfax

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2025, vol. 16, issue 5, No 19, 16078-16128

Abstract: Abstract This work is part of a new theoretical framework that starts from the process of the dual and coordinated division of knowledge and labor (DCDKL) or from dual and coordinated specialization of knowledge and labor (DCSKL) not only of human capital and intermediate capital but also of the State that remains in the process of specialized development. It starts from the reconsideration and refinement of the simplified theoretical model of endogenous growth of human capital specialization with coordination costs of (Becker and Murphy, Quarterly Journal of Economics 107:1137–60, 1992). Instead of coordination costs, it proposes an optimized temporal model convertible into workforce capturing the effects of the DCDKL and subject to the budgetary constraint of the systemic development costs of the State in the process of specialization. Specialized human capital and intermediate capital are remunerated according to their marginal productivities. Human capital is supposed to share the profits in the same way as intermediate capital with an optimized wealth distribution process based fundamentally on the parameters of productivity gains. This model articulates the division of knowledge and labor, the accumulation of knowledge, and the costs of the systemic development of the State where human activities of training, research, discovery, and development (R&D) appear as fundamental sources of endogenous technical progress broken down into human and intermediate capital in the process of specialization. It thus makes it possible to better study and predict the implications of the DCDKL on the fair and optimal distribution of resources and on growth and socio-economic development according to the approach of national accounting and under the aegis of the State in the process of specialization. The emphasis will therefore be placed on the rehabilitation of human capital in the process of sharing added value in order to explain the importance of integrating it as a remuneration of profits within the framework of a systemic development of the State in the process of specialization paced by the DCDKL process.

Keywords: Division of knowledge and labor; Valuation of human capital; Dynamic and optimized wealth distribution; Endogenous systemic growth; National accounting approach of growth; Specializing state development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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