Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24399 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 00-51
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised quadratic and the translog functional form. We find that the impacts of output and capital growth are more important in explaining the demand for heterogeneous labour than substitution effects between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is rather a consequence of output growth than input substitution.
Subjects: 
Outsourcing of services
intermediate imports
heterogeneous labour
Box-Cox cost function
JEL: 
O33
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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