Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight
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Debajyoti Chakrabarty
We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive taxation in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an economy is sufficiently developed. For under-developed countries, higher capital controls are beneficial for human capital as well as domestic physical capital accumulation suggesting that the conventional wisdom does not apply. In an augmented version of the model, we show that a modern sector characterized by positive levels of investment in education may not exist unless capital controls are sufficiently high. Higher capital controls make it feasible for a modern sector to exist by lowering the threshold income level required by workers to invest in human capital. Our results are consistent with recent evidence suggesting that capital account liberalization positively affects growth only after a country has achieved a certain threshold level of absorptive capacities.
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- Topics Article
- Counter-Cyclical and Counter-Inflation Monetary Policy Rules and Comovement Properties of Money Growth
- Hicks Neutral Technical Change Revisited: CES Production Function and Information of General Order
- R&D Subsidies and the Surplus Appropriability Problem
- Literacy and Growth
- The Fed's Preference for Policy Rate Smoothing: Overestimation Due to Misspecification?
- Inflation Targeting in Western Europe
- On the Political Economy of Housing's Tax Status
- Rating Agencies and Sovereign Debt Rollover
- How Does the New Keynesian Monetary Model Fit in the U.S. and the Eurozone? An Indirect Inference Approach
- Fertility Choice and Semi-Endogenous Growth: Where Becker Meets Jones
- Equilibrium Wage Dispersion: An Example
- Exchange Rate Regimes, Specialization and Trade Volume
- A Refinement in the Specification of Empirical Macroeconomic Models as an Extension to the EBA Procedure
- Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight
- Measuring the Dissemination of Volatility across Levels of Development
