Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65734 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2011/4
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
The paper presents a theory of the industrial transformation amongst sectors using endogenous growth theory. Allowing only a slight upward trend in the productivity of the human capital sector, combined with ascending degrees of human capital shares of sectoral output, in say, agriculture, manufacturing and services, output gradually shifts relatively over time from agriculture to manufacturing and to services. Abstracting from international trade theory, sectors intensive in the factor that is becoming relatively more plentiful find their relative outputs expanding. Adding more sectors of greater human capital intensity causes labor time to decrease within each sector, as shown for agriculture, and in general for any number of sectors.
Subjects: 
Human Capital Intensity
Sectoral Allocation
Labor Shares
Secular Endogenous Growth
JEL: 
E25
F11
J24
O14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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