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determinant such as the observed decline in the relative price of new capital goods, or the change in production technology … market augmented by a CES production function that allows firms to substitute between capital and labor at varying degrees … production. We find that the declining relative price of capital and the increase in factor substitutability each causes the …
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In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production …
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The accumulation principle suggests that complementarity between capital and labor forces the labor income share to rise in the presence of capital accumulation. The CES model estimates using data from 20 Japanese industries between 1970 and 2012 explain the same outcome but with substitutable...
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complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks … pairs of players who are most complementary in the production process exert the largest positive spillovers on each other …
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The role of capital accumulation as a driver of the labor income share requires capital and labor to be substitutes, which appears paradoxical in a world predominantly characterized by complementarity between capital and labor. This paper argues that the composition of skills in the labor force...
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Recent work has documented declines in the labor income share in the United States and beyond. This paper documents that these trends differ between manufacturing and services in the U.S. and in a broad set of other industrialized economies, and shows that a model where the degree of...
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capital and labor differs across sectors, a factor rebalancing effect is operative. It tends to make production in the more …
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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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This paper uses nonparametric kernel methods to construct observation-specific elasticities of substitution for a balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The exercise shows some support for capital-skill complementarity,...
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the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … stages from the home country to other (host) countries, we distinguish between investments in the 'production' part from that … in the non-production part using location information about the host country. The main results of the estimation of a FDI …
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