Technological Change, investment in Human Capital, and Economic Growth

J.Y. Kim and Jong-Wha Lee

Working Papers from Chicago - Graduate School of Business

Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human capital. We set up an overlapping generations model in which young agents invest in both width and depth of human capital in order to adopt new technologies. The model develops explicitly the micro-mechanism of the role of human capital in adopting new technologies as well as that of the process of human capital production. In our model an increase in the technology uncertainty decreases growth rates of income and human capital by lowering efficiencies both in creating new knowledge and in adopting new technologies.

Keywords: EDUCATION; HUMAN RESOURCES; ECONOMIC GROWTH; TECHNOLOGY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2000
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Working Paper: Technological Change, Investment in Human Capital, and Economic Growth (1999)
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