Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5054322 | Economic Modelling | 2014 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
This paper examines US wage adjustment in a structural vector autoregression of the factor proportions model with capital, labor, and energy inputs. Data cover the years 1949 to 2006. The wage adjusts to changes in input levels and output prices over six to eight years. Energy has a more robust wage impact than capital. The wage reacts weakly if at all to the falling price of manufactures and rising price of services during the sample period. Estimates relate directly to factor proportions theory suggesting robust substitution with labor in the middle of the factor intensity ranking.
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Authors
Hyeongwoo Kim, Henry Thompson,