Education and ‘human capitalists’ in a classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution
构建了一个古典-马克思增长与分配模型,分析教育将低技能工人转变为高技能工人,后者储蓄并持有资本,从而同时获得高技能工资和利润收入,探讨这对阶级划分、增长和分配的影响。
A simple classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution is developed in which education transforms low-skilled workers into high-skilled ones and in which high-skilled workers save and hold capital, therefore receiving both high-skilled wages and profit income. We analyse the implications for class divisions, growth and distribution of the transformation of the modern capitalist economy from one in which the main class division is between capitalists who own capital and workers who only receive wage income into one in which education and human capital play a major role. We show that an expansion in education can have a positive effect on growth but by altering the distribution of income rather than by fostering technological change, and that it yields some changes in income distribution and the class structure of the capitalist economy, but need not alter its fundamental features.