Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46066 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5261
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent with the augmented Solow model or the Uzawa-Lucas model, by exploiting the different non-linear restrictions implied by them as regards the relationship between factor shares and speed of convergence. Using cross-country/timeseries data, we specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short-run parameters. Indeed, both theoretical models imply that the speed of convergence to the steady state differs across countries due to heterogeneity in population growth, technical change or progressiveness of income taxes. Our estimated speed of convergence is too fast to be compatible with the augmented Solow model, but is consistent with the Uzawa-Lucas model with constant returns to scale. Our main findings are robust to several robustness tests.
Subjects: 
AK models
speed of convergence
human capital
PMG estimators
panel data
JEL: 
O11
O15
O41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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