The elasticity of factor substitution between capital and labor is a crucial parameter in many economic fields. However … and 2016, this paper provides the first meta-regression analysis of capital-labor substitution elasticities for the U …

The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor features prominently in several areas of economic research …

We show that the large elasticity of substitution between capital and labor estimated in the literature on average, 0 … capital. The mean elasticity conditional on the absence of publication bias, disaggregated data, and inclusion of informa …- tion from the first-order condition for capital is 0.3. To obtain this result, we collect 3,186 estimates of the elasticity …

We show that the large elasticity of substitution between capital and labor estimated in the literature on average, 0 … capital. The mean elasticity conditional on the absence of publication bias, disaggregated data, and inclusion of information … from the first-order condition for capital is 0.3. To obtain this result, we collect 3,186 estimates of the elasticity …

This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in … immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and … parametric production function calibrated to our estimates imply the level of capital-skill complementarity after 1890 likely …

total physical capital as a key input. Implicitly this assumes that private and public capital stocks are perfect … substitutes. In this paper we test this assumption by estimating a nested-CES production function whereas the two types of capital … private capital stocks for 151 countries over a period of 1960-2014 consistent with Penn World Table version 9. We find …

the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. Our focus is on the two-input constant elasticity of …