Rejecting capital-skill complementarity at all costs

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 comple...

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Main Authors: Frondel, Manuel (Author) , Schmidt, Christoph M. (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Mannheim ZEW April 2001
Series:ZEW discussion paper no. 01-27
In: ZEW discussion papers (no. 01-27)

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Online Access:Resolving-System, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24448
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Author Notes:Manuel Frondel and Christoph M. Schmidt

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