Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Reto Foellmi and Josef Zweimüller ()

No 472, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (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 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: innovation; structural change; balanced growth; Kaldor facts; hierarchic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 L16 O11 O31 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2002-04
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Published - published as 'Structural change, Engel's consumption cycles and Kaldor's facts of economic growth' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55 (7), 1317-1328

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