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Labor Economics

Old Dominion University

2023

Unemployment

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The Choice Of Technology In Economic Development, Lei Wen, Haiwen Zhou Jan 2023

The Choice Of Technology In Economic Development, Lei Wen, Haiwen Zhou

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The impact of capital accumulation on job creation is an important and interesting issue in economic development. This model provides a general-equilibrium framework for studying technology choice with unemployment in a developing economy based on micro-foundations. Unemployment in the urban sector results from the existence of efficiency wages. Manufacturing firms engage in oligopolistic competition and choose technologies to maximise profits. A more advanced technology uses more capital and less labour. In the steady state, an increase in the amount of capital induces firms to choose more advanced technologies and the wage rate increases. While a higher capital stock always induces …