Economic Growth, Structural Change, and Search Unemployment

Urban Unemployment and Economic Growth in Africa

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Economic Status, Unemployment, and Family Growth

The economic status of a family has an important bearing on how many children they have, want, and expect and on the timing of family growth-the age at marriage, whether or not the mother was premaritally pregnant, and on the time interval between marriage and successive births. This is one of the findings from a study, made by the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, of mot...

On Demographic Transition, Structural Change, and Economic Growth and Stagnation

The paper analyzes an economy with an agrarian and an industrial sector. Demand is determined by Engel's Law. Population growth follows a non{linear income dependent path according to the theory of demographic transition. In case of decreasing returns to scale in the agrarian sector the existence of a stable low{income equilibrium with high population growth can be shown. If this equilibrium is...

Youth employment, unemployment, skills and economic growth

Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

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 ...