Tanzi, Vito.
Human Capital Accumulation and Public Sector Growth Vito Tanzi. [electronic resource] / Vito Tanzi. - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995. - 1 online resource (14 p.) - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 95/95 . - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 95/95 .
The present paper takes a fresh theoretical and empirical look into the relationship between Wagner's law and economic development. It introduces human capital into a classic two-sector model of unbalanced growth. It shows that, as an economy develops, changes in the relative returns to human capital and unskilled labor, as a result of changes to their relative scarcities, could have a significant impact on the size of the government sector, depending in part also on the difference in relative factor intensities between outputs of the private and government sectors. This conjecture is broadly supported by empirical evidence based on a cross-section analysis of a large sample of developed and developing countries.
1451950446 : 15.00 USD
1018-5941
10.5089/9781451950441.001 doi
Expenditure
Government Expenditure
Per Capita Income Levels
Per Capita Income
Wage Expenditure
Burundi
Canada
Ireland
Singapore
Sweden
Human Capital Accumulation and Public Sector Growth Vito Tanzi. [electronic resource] / Vito Tanzi. - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995. - 1 online resource (14 p.) - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 95/95 . - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 95/95 .
The present paper takes a fresh theoretical and empirical look into the relationship between Wagner's law and economic development. It introduces human capital into a classic two-sector model of unbalanced growth. It shows that, as an economy develops, changes in the relative returns to human capital and unskilled labor, as a result of changes to their relative scarcities, could have a significant impact on the size of the government sector, depending in part also on the difference in relative factor intensities between outputs of the private and government sectors. This conjecture is broadly supported by empirical evidence based on a cross-section analysis of a large sample of developed and developing countries.
1451950446 : 15.00 USD
1018-5941
10.5089/9781451950441.001 doi
Expenditure
Government Expenditure
Per Capita Income Levels
Per Capita Income
Wage Expenditure
Burundi
Canada
Ireland
Singapore
Sweden