The return to hours and workers in U.S. manufacturing: evidence on aggregation bias.
A Cobb-Douglas production function is used to determine whether by restricting the standard workweek and substituting workers for hours, firms will be forced to substitute highly productive hours for less productive new hires. Industry-specific data by state from 1972 to 1978 and by four-digit-SIC...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 336 - 353 |
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Southern Economic Association
October 1999
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