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balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The exercise … shows some support for capital-skill complementarity, but the strength of the evidence depends upon the definition of …
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substitutability relationship between unskilled workers and OCM capital in manufacturing industries. In the non-manufacturing sector …, however, we find some evidence for substitutability between OCM capital and unskilled workers. …
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Using U.S. manufacturing data, Griliches (1969) found evidence suggesting that capital equipment was more substitutable … for unskilled than skilled labor. Griliches formulated this finding as the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The … purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants …
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capital and skill are substitutes in aggregate production. …
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shifts by (observable) changes in the capital stock under a capital-skill complementarity technology. The results show that … stock of capital, the KORV model predicts that the skillpremium will remain between -5% and +5% of its 1996 level. …
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This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take … increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher education in capital-importing (-exporting) economies, all other …. Using foreign direct investment (FDI) as a measure for capital flows, we present empirical evidence which largely confirms …
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The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this...
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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …
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covers the period 1993-2005. The estimates indicate that it is advantageous to adjust the stock of labour and capital … simultaneously. The cost advantage of simultaneous changes is small for capital but is large for labour. The empirical results …
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This paper investigates regional public-private wage differentials in Italy. Following the recent wave of reforms that significantly changed wage setting and employment relations in both sectors - increasing decentralisation in collective bargaining and enforcing a "privatisation" of public...
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