01785cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF000113 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451950441 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Tanzi, Vito. Human Capital Accumulation and Public Sector Growth / Vito Tanzi, Howell Zee. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995. 1 online resource (14 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The present paper takes a fresh theoretical and empirical look into the relationship between Wagner's law and economic development. It introduces human capital into a classic two-sector model of unbalanced growth. It shows that, as an economy develops, changes in the relative returns to human capital and unskilled labor, as a result of changes to their relative scarcities, could have a significant impact on the size of the government sector, depending in part also on the difference in relative factor intensities between outputs of the private and government sectors. This conjecture is broadly supported by empirical evidence based on a cross-section analysis of a large sample of developed and developing countries. Mode of access: Internet Zee, Howell. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/095 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1995/095/001.1995.issue-095-en.xml IMF e-Library