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Induced Innovations and Foreign Workers in U.S. Agriculture [PDF]
A cost function approach of induced innovation is used to measure the biases in U.S. agricultural technology between 1948-1994. The results show significant labor-saving, capital-using technical change. Focusing on the impact of migration policy on labor-
Emerson, Robert D. +1 more
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The article is devoted to main approaches to the development of the professional standard «Specialist for quality control and testing of nanostructured pharmaceutical products».
S. A. Kedik +5 more
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Cyclical movements along the labor supply function [PDF]
A consensus in macroeconomics holds that the observed higher-frequency movements in employment and hours of work are movements along a labor-supply function caused by shifts of the labor demand function. Recent theoretical thinking has extended this view
Robert E. Hall
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Marx on Historical Materialism [PDF]
Marx’s theory of historical materialism seeks to explain human history and development on the basis of the material conditions underlying all human existence. For Marx, the most important of all human activities is the activity of production by means of
Baur, Michael
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Lumpy Labor Adjustment as a Propagation Mechanism of Business Cycles [PDF]
I explore the aggregate effects of micro lumpy labor adjustment in a prototypical RBC model, which embeds a stochastic labor duration mechanism in the spirit of Calvo(1983), and it extends this approach by introducing a Weibull-distributed labor ...
Fang Yao
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[Review of the book \u3ci\u3eStudies of Urban Labour Market Behaviour in Developing Areas\u3c/i\u3e] [PDF]
[Excerpt] In the 1970s social scientists from all disciplines became aware that an understanding of how labor markets function is central to determining who benefits from economic growth.
Fields, Gary S
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PARAMETERIZED EXPECTATIONS ALGORITHM: HOW TO SOLVE FOR LABOR EASILY [PDF]
Euler-equation methods for solving nonlinear dynamic models involve parameterizing some policy functions. We argue that in the typical macroeconomic model with valuable leisure, labor function is particularly convenient for parameterizing.
Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
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Re-employment Probabilities and Wage Offer Function for Russian Labor Market [PDF]
This research addresses labor market transformation in Russia. It elaborates on the theory of job search and focuses on the following issues: (1) evaluation of the re-employment probabilities (hazard rates) for different socio-economic groups; and (2 ...
Smirnova, Natalia V.
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both
S. Dobbelaere +3 more
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Existing research on construction time-cost tradeoff issues rarely explore the origin of the crashing cost. Crashing cost function was either assumed without much justification, or came from historical data of some real projects.
Zhigang Shen, Ashkan Hassani, Qian Shi
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