Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33249 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1672
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs and outputs, in terms of restrictions on elasticities of scale and substitution. These conditions are then empirically investigated, in a framework that is flexible and does not lose its flexibility after separability being imposed. The empirical findings of the exact approach to aggregation are found to be rather pessimistic on the possibility to provide a simplified representation.
Subjects: 
aggregation
separability
flexibility
exports
labour demand
Box-Cox
system serial correlation
JEL: 
C33
D24
E10
J23
L60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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