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Heshmati, Almas; Haouas, Ilham - 2011

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Rejecting capital-skill complementarity at all costs

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification - this is also the approach used by numerous … explanation: Using a translog approach reduces the issue of factor substitutability or complementarity to a question of cost … shares. Our review of translog studies mentioned in HAMERMESH's (1993) summary on the demand for heterogeneous labor …

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Hiring costs of skilled workers and the supply of firm-provided training

Blatter, Marc; Mühlemann, Samuel; Schenker, Samuel; … - 2012

This paper analyzes how the costs of hiring skilled workers from the external labor market affect a firm's supply of training. Using administrative survey data with detailed information on hiring and training costs for Swiss firms, we find evidence for substantial and increasing marginal hiring...

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Capital-skill complementarity : evidence from manufacturing industries in Ghana

Akay, Gokhan H.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009

-skill complementarity ; elasticity of substitution ; translog cost function …

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A note on Allen-Uzawa partial elasticities of substitution : the case of the translog cost function

Christev, Atanas (contributor); … - 2007

This note provides a useful property of the Allen-Uzawa partials for the translog cost function. It also suggests how …

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Reducing risks in wartime through capital-labor substitution : evidence from World War II

Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2015

Our research uses data from multiple archival sources to examine substitution among armored (tank-intensive), infantry (troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well as mid-war reorganizations of each type, to estimate the marginal cost of reducing U.S. fatalities...

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The demand for labor : an analysis using matched employer-employee data from the German LIAB ; will the high unskilled worker own-wage elasticity please stand up?

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2005

This paper uses matched employee-employer LIAB data to provide panel estimates of the structure of labor demand in Germany, 1993-2002, distinguishing between highly skilled, skilled, and unskilled labor and between the manufacturing and service sectors. Reflecting current preoccupations, our...

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Exports and labour demand : searching for functional structure in multi-output multi-skill technologies

Koebel, Bertrand M. (contributor) - 2005

In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs...

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What happens when agent T gets a computer? : The labor market impact of cost efficient computer adoption

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The impact of office machinery and computer capital on the demand for heterogeneous labour

Falk, Martin (contributor); Koebel, Bertrand M. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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