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The Relationship Between Skilled Labor and Technical Change

Savvidou, Eleni - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

This study investigates whether capital-skill complementarity is the explanation for skill-biased technical change. For … this to be the case, capital-skill complementarity must exist in the first place and, secondly, all technical change must …-age adjusted translog production function incorporating both embodied and disembodied technical change is implemented on a 14 …

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Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971– 96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment parameter is specified in terms of factors...

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User Cost of Capital and Cost Function : Does the Margin in the Modelling Yields Robust Results?

Baccar, Sourour - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2003

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Labor-use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industiries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - In: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance 1 (2003) 3, pp. 1012-1012

This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over a period of 25 years, from 1971 to 1996. Industries are assumed to adjust their labor inputs toward a desired level. A labor requirement...

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Structural Change and Productive Blocks in the Spanish Economy: An Input-Output Analysis for 1980-1994.

Sánchez Chóliz, Julio; Duarte, Rosa - Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Zaragoza - 2003

The objective of this paper is to analyse the technological change produced in the Spanish economy between 1980 and 1994 using the Input-Output tables of 1980, 1986, 1990 and 1994. Firstly we obtain and compare the linkage components of each block throughout the period. Secondly, using...

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North-South Trade and Directed Technical Change

Gancia, Gino; Bonfiglioli, Alessandra - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

shifts technical change in favor of rich nations. Through this channel, free trade may amplify international income …-1990. The paper also provides empirical support for the mechanism linking North-South trade to the direction of technical change …

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Sporadic Innovation and Historical Continuity

Enos, J. L. - In: Prometheus 21 (2003) 2, pp. 161-175

This article argues that, by appealing to technological factors, one can compare different innovations, even different economies, over time. An application is made to the development of steam engines and turbines over their history from 1700 to 2000, for which it is shown that four types of...

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The Economics of Adoption of Industrial Cogeneration: A Deterministic Model in Continuous Time

Madlener, Reinhard; Wickart, Marcel - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2003

in continuous time, takes a lifetime perspective, and explicitly accounts for the impact of technical change and …

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The Economic Impact of Telecommunications Diffusion on UK Productivity Growth

Correa, Lisa - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2003

This paper investigates the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure competition, investment and productivity. Using econometric modelling and input-output economics, the analysis examines and measures the extent to which telecommunications has contributed to national and sectoral...

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Research and productivity : endogenous technical change

Satō, Ryūzo; Suzawa, Gilbert S. - 1983

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