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contrasted patterns in terms of capital deepening. …
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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 capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants …
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We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...
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various new distortions between private and optimal solution. First, a monopoly distortion effect generates too little capital … accumulation in the private solution because households? gross return per unit of capital will be lower than in the social optimum …
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labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … well. By implication, policies that stimulate investment and R&D and policies that affect the size of the labor force may … is meant to ensure that unemployment is not trended in response to growth in the capital stock, the labor force, or …
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studies analyzing the relative capital-skill complementarity hypothesis formulated by GRILICHES (1969). According to this … hypothesis, the degree of substitutability between skilled labor and capital is lower than that for unskilled labor and capital …
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Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affect the curvature of...
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The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor (σ) is usually considered a "deep parameter". This paper shows … substitution between capital and labor is below unity; that it increases along with the degree of globalization; but it decreases … enhances the substitutability between capital and labor. We also find evidence of a non-significant impact of the capital …
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balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The exercise … shows some support for capital-skill complementarity, but the strength of the evidence depends upon the definition of …
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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …
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