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Volume 12, Issue 5
1 May 1985
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Review Article| May 01 1985

Can Solow's Measure of Technical Change he Applied to Cross‐Sectional Data?

Chi Schive;
Chi Schive
National Taiwan University
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Badiul A. Majumdar
Badiul A. Majumdar
Central Washington University
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7387
Print ISSN: 0144-3585
© MCB UP Limited
1985
Journal of Economic Studies (1985) 12 (5): 58–61.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002613

The pioneering work of Robert Solow (1957) provides us with a model to measure technical change for an aggregated economy. The model, expressing technical change, r, in terms of improvements in labour productivity, is presented as

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