Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/111535 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9081
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on the GDP in the medium term and a positive effect in the long term. This could be an explanation for the weak empirical relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a given enrolment rate, the quality of education, as measured by workers' ability to learn, has a positive effect on the GDP both in the medium and in the long term.
Subjects: 
education
learning-by-doing
productivity
economic growth
overlapping generations model
JEL: 
I25
J24
O11
O41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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