Costly investment, complementarities and the skill premium

We propose a new framework to analyse the relationship between the relative high-skilled labour endowment, the skill premium and economic growth. Building on Acemoglu and Zilibotti (2001), we introduce physical capital; internal costly investment in both capital and R&D; and complementarities be...

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Main Author: Afonso, Óscar (author)
Other Authors: Thompson, Maria João Ribeiro (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/13092
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/13092