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Capital-skill complementarity : evidence from manufacturing industries in Ghana

Akay, Gokhan H.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009

purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants … in industry and aggregate level. We use an unbalanced panel of plant-level data for manufacturing firms in Ghana during … suggest that capital-skill complementarity holds in aggregate level and wood-furniture sector in Ghana. However, we reject the …

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Rejecting capital-skill complementarity at all costs

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification - this is also the approach used by numerous studies analyzing the relative capital-skill...

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People and machines : a look at the evolving relationship between capital and skill in manufacturing 1860 - 1930 using immigration shocks

Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2015

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 unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...

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The effects of globalization and technology on the elasticity of substitution

Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2017

The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor (σ) is usually considered a "deep parameter". This paper shows, in contrast, that σ is affected by both globalization and technology, and that different intensities in these drivers have different consequences for the OECD and the...

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"Even" after access to financial services? : ricocheting gender equations

Arun, Shoba; Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom - 2016

The paper focuses on women's financial behaviour in their use of higher order financial services in Ghana and South … to use general financial products than in Ghana, though in general more men use advanced investment products. Race has an …

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The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns : evidence from Ghana

Schotte, Simone; Danquah, Michael; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2021

on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay …-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially delimited areas, bringing Ghana's major metropolitan centres to a standstill …

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Cities, tasks and skills

Kok, Suzanne; Weel, Bas ter - 2014

This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while others require proximity. We construct a measure of task...

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The "task approach" to labor markets : an overview

Autor, David H. - 2013

An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization - that is, rising employment in the...

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Do informal referrals lead to better matches? : evidence from a firm's employee referral system

Brown, Meta; Setren, Elizabeth; Topa, Giorgio - 2014

Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U.S. corporation, and test various predictions of theoretical...

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Testing the validity of item non-response as a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills

New, Sonja C. de; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - 2015

Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...

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