Technological Progress and the Distribution of Productivities across Sectors

Maria Morales

No 142, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2002 from Royal Economic Society

Abstract: This paper studies the impact of the process of technological change on the distribution of productivities and profits across sectors. We find that if technological progress affects high-tech and traditional sectors differently, the impact of changes in the determinants of economic growth may differ depending on which is the actual change. When an economy is growing faster due to an increase in the productivity of research or to a reduction of the taxes on capital accumulation, inequality will decrease. However, if faster growth is due to the presence of tax incentives to high technology sectors or to structural changes that allow a better absorption of externalities, inequality will increase.

Date: 2002-08-29
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://repec.org/res2002/Morales.pdf full text

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ecj:ac2002:142

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2002 from Royal Economic Society Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christopher F. Baum ().