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A microfoundation for production functions : assignment of heterogenous workers to heterogenous jobs
Dupuy, Arnaud (contributor) - 2008
In very different fields of economics, economic inference and policy evaluation require economists to parametrize a production function that links measures of input factors to measures of output. While doing so, strong assumptions are implicitly made about microeconomic variables governing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652691
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On input market frictions and estimation of factors demand
Dupuy, Arnaud; Sorensen, Todd - 2011
In this paper we explore the impact of imperfectly competitive input markets on production function estimation. First order profit maximizing conditions are altered when frictions in input markets cause the elasticity of input supply to the firm to be finite. A consequence of this is that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311511
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Integrated macroeconomic production function for open economies : a new Schumpeterian Solow model for globalization
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2016
investment or international technology spillovers. This study is a major contribution to innovation, trade, FDI and growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452235
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Technical progress and induced innovation in China : a variable profit function approach
Wong, K. K. Gary; Fleisher, Belton M.; Min Qiang Zhao; … - 2020
productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical … find that not only is wage-induced innovation significant and quantitatively important, but also that it substantially … is predominantly driven by wage-induced innovation along with massive injection of heavily subsidized physical inputs in …
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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704213
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The production function for housing : evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2016
We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output as a latent variable and relies on the first-order condition for profit maximisation with respect to non-land inputs by competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581668
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A general model of technical change with an application to the OECD countries
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2011
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425734
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The assignment of workers to tasks, wage distribution and technical change : a critical review
Dupuy, Arnaud (contributor) - 2008
This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656944
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704348
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Skill complementarity in production technology : ew empirical evidence and implications
Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nick - 2019
Matched worker-firm data from Danish manufacturing reveal that 1) industries differ in within-firm worker skill dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher average skill dispersion. We argue that these patterns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024633