... a can be interpreted as the “pure” share of capital in the production function. The parameter b , as explained shortly, is a determinant of the economy’s direction of technical change. The VES form embeds three special cases. When a = 1, it takes the Harrod-Domar fixed coefficients...

... Technical change Output growth Figure 1 Average annual growth rate of foreign labour in manufacturing’s sub-industries, 2000–2008 Existing studies investigating the performance of the Malaysian manufacturing sector primarily employ the TFP technique. Virtually all of the studies arrive...

...Paulo de Andrade Jacinto; Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro; Tulio Cravo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate skilled labor demand determinants in Brazil, considering alternatives explanations: changes in relative wages, non-homothetic technology output growth and skill-biased technical change...