In the Solow growth model with population growth of 5 percent and a labor augmenting technological progress of 3 percent, the economy's:
A. number of workers grow at 5 percent while the number of effective workers grow at 3%.
B. number of workers grow at 3 percent while the number of effective workers grow at 8 percent.
C. number of workers grow at 5 percent while the number of effective workers grow at 2 percent.
D. number of workers grow at 5 percent while the number of effective workers grow at 8 percent.
In the Solow growth model with a population growth of 5 percent and labor-augmenting technological progress of 3 percent, the economy's:
The number of workers grows at 5% whereas the number of effective workers grows at 5+3 =8%
option(D)
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