Crescimento e convergência na América do Sul: 1969-2000

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Müller, Leandro Cristiano
• Orientador(a): Marquetti, Adalmir A.
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: ECONOMIA; DESENVOLVIMENTO ECONÔMICO; TRABALHO - PRODUTIVIDADE; CAPITAL; PROGRESSO TÉCNICO (ECONOMIA); DISTRIBUIÇÃO DE RENDA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2639

This master thesis analysis if the Marx-biased technical change, a rising labor productivity and declining capital productivity, was present in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela between 1969 and 2000. It is employed the growthdistribution schedule to visualize the pattern of technical change. It is a line having for its vertical intercept output per worker, or labor productivity, and for its horizontal intercept output per unit of capital, or capital productivity. A growth model of caching-up in the classical-Marxist tradition is developed where the pattern of technical change and the capital accumulation determine the convergence in labor productivity. The process of convergence among Canada, United States and Japan is investigated as well as between the five biggest economies of South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela) and among the countries of Mercosul (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay). There was convergence among the developed and developing countries between 1969 and late seventies and divergence after 1980. There was convergence in labor productivity among the five biggest economies of South America until early nineties. There was convergence in labor productivity from 1969 to late eights in the Mercosul countries followed by divergence in the nineties.