This paper lays out a replication plan for the influential paper by Klump et al. (Factor Substitution and Factor-augmenting Technical Progress in the United States: a Normalized Supply-side System Approach 2007) on using a normalized CES supply-side system approach to estimate the value of the...

Purpose This paper aims to test the hypothesis that the effect of production slowdown on labour demand can be muted by labour hoarding. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a production function approach, using data from Malta, a small state in the EU. Findings The results confirm the...

Labour‐saving technologies are relevant for agricultural development. Yet, as this study shows, they are poorly integrated into agricultural production functions of economy‐wide models. We report a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which explicitly incorporating field operations...