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What Happens When Agent T Gets a Computer? The Labor Market Impact of Cost Efficient Computer Adoption

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2003

-wage jobs because of cost efficiency. Furthermore, skill upgrading occurs because of a reemphasis on non-routine tasks after …

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The Impact of Office Machinery and Computer Capital on the Demand for Heterogeneous Labour

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2003

We study the impact of office and computing machinery (OCM) on the demands for workers with different educational levels. The empirical analysis relies on a system of demand equations that nests the translog, the generalised Leontief and the normalised quadratic specifications. Using panel data...

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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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

Christev, Atanas; Featherstone, Allen - 2007

This note provides a useful property of the Allen-Uzawa partials for the translog cost function. It also suggests how the main results extend to any functional form with certain properties. The curvature of the Allen-Uzawa matrix is the same as the curvature of the Hessian matrix. Intuitively...

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Capital-skill complementarity: evidence from manufacturing industries in Ghana

Akay, Gokhan H.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009

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...

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

Koebel, Bertrand M. - 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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Belief elicitation in experiments: is there a hedging problem?

Blanco, Mariana; Engelmann, Dirk; Koch, Alexander K.; … - 2008

existing belief elicitation results, (ii) can we avoid potential hedging confounds? Our results instill confidence regarding … both issues. We propose an experimental design that eliminates hedging opportunities, and use this to test for the … empirical relevance of hedging effects in the lab. We find no evidence for hedging, comparing the standard hedging-prone" belief …

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Aircraft noise, health, and residential sorting: Evidence from two quasi-experiments

Boes, Stefan; Nüesch, Stephan; Stillman, Steven - 2012

We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for individual and spatial heterogeneity, we find that...

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Private Tutoring: Evidence from India

Azam, Mehtabul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Drawing on the nationally representative "Participation and Expenditure in Education" surveys, we document the incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring involve two decisions: a) whether to take private tuition...

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