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-employee panel data for Belgium and rely on methodological approaches from both Hellerstein and Neumark (1995) and Bartolucci (2014 …
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Does the introduction of corporate transparency and disclosure rules in emerging economies affect compliance, and therefore earnings quality and firm performance? We explore these questions for an important emerging economy, Russia, using a natural experiment, the 2002 introduction of Russian...
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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 … capitalist and co-op enterprises. -- worker-owned firms ; capitalist firms ; wages ; employment ; capital …
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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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particular, capital-skill complementarity represents a source of relative skill-bias while SETI provides an absolute skill …
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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 skill-premium will remain between -5% and +5% of its 1996 level. …
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their levels of immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and labor, the return on capital is positively … related to the level of immigration. Consequently, when capital is immobile, host nations' optimal levels of immigration are … positively related to their capital endowments. Further, when capital is mobile between the two host nations, the common return …
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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 … demand. -- factor demand ; labour ; capital ; interrelation ; nonconvex adjustment costs …
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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 …
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This paper presents a new model of endogenous wage and capital dispersion where heterogeneity is driven by … extended to endogenise firms' optimal investment in job-specific capital and search efforts undertaken by both employed and …
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