New technologies and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Firm-level evidence for the german business-related service sector

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 465-486

  Kaiser, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aivariate ordad probit model; Business related services; Generalized Leontief cost function; Heterogeneous labor demand; Interrelated factor demands; Labor cost decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345837842     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438590000000019     Document Type: Article

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