Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70297 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 69
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in per-capita income levels and growth rates is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on Austria and Germany we augment the Solow model to allow for the accumulation of human capital. Based on a perpetual inventory procedure we construct measures of human capital stocks. We find that the time series evidence on Austria and Germany is not consistent with a human-capital-augmented Solow model. Factor accumulation appears to be less (and not more) able to account for the cross-country growth performance of Austria and Germany when human capital accumulation is included. Our results indicate that differences in technology are a driving factor in understanding cross-country growth between these two neighboring countries with similar political and institutional background.
Subjects: 
economic growth
total factor productivity
human capital
technical change
growth accounting
JEL: 
O1
O3
O4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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