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Capital-labor substitution and economic efficiency

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In this article, the authors proposed a method to improve the quality of the service provided by the service provider by using the information of the user's interaction with the provider and the provider.
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Обсуждаются следующие темы: чистая теория производства, функциональное распределение дохода, технический прогресс, источники международных конкурентных преимуществ. Анализируются эластичность замещения между трудом и капиталом в обрабатывающей промышленности; производственные функции различного типа.

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Sources of Economic Growth: Physical capital, human capital, natural resources, and TFP

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review neoclassical models which show the essential of TFP in long-run growth and the potential of being stuck in poverty trap, and show that long run economic growth can be sustained by learning-by-doing as claimed by accumulationists.
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Technology, productivity and fixed costs : four essays in applied production analysis

Xi Chen
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared different empirical specifications and statistical methods used in production analysis, and pointed out their implications for estimating technology parameters and fixed costs in terms of price setting, returns to scale and exports.
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Substitutability of Capital-Labour in the Presence of Unions in the US Postal Services Industry

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of labor unions on elasticity of substitution between production inputs in the US Postal Service industry were studied using data from the National Income Product Account (NIPA) and the Current Population Survey (CPS).
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The electric utility demand for energy in the United States

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of various fossil fuel inputs in the generation of electrical energy via a two-step procedure is examined. And the question of the stability of the demand for fuel inputs is addressed.
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Technical change and the aggregate production function

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to improve the performance of the system by using the information of the user's interaction with the system and the system itself, including the interaction between the two parties.
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Resource and output trends in the United States since 1870

TL;DR: In this paper, a very brief treatment of three questions relating to the history of our economic growth since the Civil War is given, namely: (1) How large has been the net increase of aggregate output per capita, and to what extent has this increase been obtained as a result of greater labor or capital input on the one hand and of a rise in productivity on the other? (2) Is there evidence of retardation, or conceivably acceleration, in the growth of per capita output? (3) Have there been fluctuations in the rate of growth of output, apart