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    Technological Change, Human Capital Structure, and Multiple Growth Paths

    Kim, Yong Jin; Lee, Jong-Wha | March 2009
    Abstract
    This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human capital in the uncertain environments of technology. The uncertainty comes from two sources; the possibility of a technology advance and the characteristics of new technologies. We set up an overlapping generations model in which young agents invest in both width and depth of human capital in order to adopt new technologies. The model develops explicitly the micro-mechanism of the role of human capital in adopting new technologies as well as that of the process of human capital production in uncertain environments. In our model, a higher level for width of human capital relative to the level of depth leads one country to a higher growth path. We also show that an economy can have different growth paths depending on the initial structure of human capital and the uncertainty about the nature of new technologies. In particular, new technologies with more uncertain characteristics may adversely affect human capital accumulation and income growth, leading the economy to a low growth trap.
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    Kim, Yong Jin; Lee, Jong-Wha. 2009. Technological Change, Human Capital Structure, and Multiple Growth Paths. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1797. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
    ISSN
    1655-5252
    Keywords
    Development In East Asia
    Development Planning
    Development Research
    Technology Development
    Aid And Development
    Asian Development Bank
    Comprehensive Development Framework
    Development Cooperation
    Development Management
    Development Planning
    Development Strategies
    Development strategy
    Development models
    Economic development
    New technology
    Rural planning
    Aid coordination
    Industrial projects
    Infrastructure projects
    Natural resources policy
    Educational development
    Economic development projects
    Economic forecasting
    Economic development projects
    Municipal government
    Technology transfer
    Exchanges of patents and technical information
    Technical education
    Technology
    Communication in rural development
    Communication in community development
    Economic development projects
    Development banks
    Economic forecasting
    Environmental auditing
    Cumulative effects assessment
    Human rights and globalization
    Transfer Technocracy
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1797
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    Kim, Yong Jin
    Lee, Jong-Wha
    Theme
    Development
    Economics
     
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