Elasticity of substitution and productivity, capital and skill intensity differences across firms

Economics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 340-347

  Dupuy, Arnaud ^a   de Grip, Andries ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capital intensity and skill biased technical change; Elasticity of substitution; Labor productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644546716     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.08.025     Document Type: Article

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