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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Labor Substitution"”.
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Labor Substitution in U.S. Manufacturing
… model designed to estimate the elasticity of substitution between capital, non-production workers, and production workers using U.S. manufacturing data for the period 1988 to 1997. The elasticity of substitution estimates derived from the translog model suggest that production workers and …
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The Economics of Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the United States, 1920--1970
… rural-to-urban migration and capital-for-labor substitution.
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The effect of demographic change on firms' human resource policies
… result of the baby bust cohort now entering the labor force. Previous studies have shown that the young workers of the baby boom cohort experienced lower relative earnings and higher unemployment because of their large cohort size. In contrast, this study is aimed at discovering how firms are …
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The Future of Technology Bargaining in the Information Age
… on workers. Using technology as a substitute for labor is a common industrial practice and the effects of substitution (though not the decision to substitute) will continue to dominate collective bargaining in the information age. More relevant than substitution is the effect that digital …
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Using artificial intelligence to enhance personalization of customer relationship management in the contact center space : Afiniti's technology case study
… Such a revolution is not one of human labor substitution by intelligent machines but one of collaboration through augmentation of human capabilities. One company, Afiniti, has developed such a technology and associated it with a very unusual business model and sales strategy that could …
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The household economic impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in South Africa
… loans) or indirect costs (e.g., intra-household labor substitution) and can be cost prevention strategies (e.g., ignoring illness, non-treatment) to cost management strategies (e.g., borrowing, selling assets, or labor substitution). Economic costs were valued in United State dollar (USD) …
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Essays in Risk and Risk-Coping in Developing Settings
… the impact of high rainfall is driven by a labor substitution effect.</p><p>In the second chapter, I use rainfall variation as an instrumental variable for school attainment in order to provide a new estimate for the returns to schooling in a developing setting. In chapter one I showed that …