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Scale Effects And Labor Productivity, Jürgen Antony

Jürgen Antony

The topic of this thesis is the impact of scale effects onto labor productivity and its implications. Chapter one gives an overview of the economic literature on scale effects. It starts with reviewing early economic writings; summarizes the literature of the new trade theory, the new economic geography and the new growth theory and looks upon scale effects in the economics of integration. Last but not least it motivates the chapters to come. Chapter two deals with wage inequality between different types of labor in models of endogenous growth with scale effects in the growth rate of an economy or …