A discrete heterogeneous-group economic growth model with endogenous leisure time (Q1040157)

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A discrete heterogeneous-group economic growth model with endogenous leisure time
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    A discrete heterogeneous-group economic growth model with endogenous leisure time (English)
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    23 November 2009
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    Summary: This paper proposes a one-sector multigroup growth model with endogenous labor supply in discrete time. Proposing an alternative approach to behavior of households, we examine the dynamics of wealth and income distribution in a competitive economy with capital accumulation as the main engine of economic growth. We show how human capital levels, preferences, and labor force of heterogeneous households determine the national economic growth, wealth, and income distribution and time allocation of the groups. By simulation we demonstrate, for instance, that in the three-group economy when the rich group's human capital is improved, all the groups will economically benefit, and the leisure times of all the groups are reduced but when any other group's human capital is improved, the group will economically benefit, the other two groups economically lose, and the leisure times of all the groups are increased.
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    economic growth
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    welfare
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    human capital
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    income distribution
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