Economía, 2019 The unsettled discussion continues about the factors behind the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in developing countries. Using data from Peru for the years 1994 to 2000, we analyze the determinants of within-industry share of skilled ...
Joy Mazumdar (†), Myriam Quispe-Agnoli
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An Empirical Analysis of Mark-ups in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper, we estimate mark-ups with plant level production data for Argentina from a structural model of cost-minimizing producers, as proposed by De Loecker and Warzynski (2012). We explore systematic differences across industries and plants.
Brambilla, María Irene +1 more
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Bi-directionality in translating culture: Understanding translator trainees' actual and perceived behaviors. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Qassem M, Al Thowaini BM.
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Generalized Quadratic Revenue Functions [PDF]
In this paper we focus on specification of revenue functions in their dual price space. We consider two distance functions, both dual to the revenue function: Shephard output distance function and the directional output distance function, both in price ...
Michael Vardanyan +3 more
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Are foreign multinationals more efficient? A stochastic production frontier analysis of Malaysia's automobile industry [PDF]
, 2008 This paper compares the sources of total factor productivity (TFP) growth of foreign (establishments with 51% and above foreign equity ownership) and local establishments in Malaysia’s automotive sector by applying a stochastic production frontier to a ...
Abdul Talib, Basri, Khalifah, Noor Aini
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Rejecting capital-skill complementarity at all costs [PDF]
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 ...
Frondel, Manuel, Schmidt, Christoph M.
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Prices and production cost in aluminium smelting in the short and the long run [PDF]
, 2003 The main objective of this work is to reflect the structural changes that have characterized the aluminium industry over the last few decades. I order to capture the changes in competition I have estimated cost and related it to output prices by ...
Figuerola-Ferretti, Isabel
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Measuring Environmental Efficiency: A Case Study of Thermal Power Generation in Jonoobi, Razavi and Shomali Khorasan Provinces [PDF]
Pizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2013 Thermal power plant emissions are considered as one of the most important environmental pollutions. In this study environmental efficiency of electricity industry for NOx emissions is calculated.
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INDIRECT UTILITY FUNCTIONS AND TESTABLE CONDITIONS [PDF]
We develop testable hypotheses for utility maximization given risk averse producers based on a general specification of the utility function. This is a direct expansion of the model posed by Pope (1978).
Detre, Joshua D., Foster, Kenneth A.
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Team Production and Factor Substitution in Major League Baseball
International Journal of Empirical EconomicsIn this paper, we estimate a translog production function for Major League Baseball (MLB) teams that uses factor inputs for hitting, pitching and defence over the 1960–2024 MLB seasons.
Duane W. Rockerbie
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