Labor Substitution in U.S. Manufacturing

This paper presents a translog 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 capital are substitutes, as well as non-production and production workers. Although the estimates do not provide conclusive evidence regarding the degree of substitutability between non-production workers and capital, they do indicate that the degree of substitutability between production workers and capital is greater than it is between non-production workers and capital.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Department dc:contributor.department

Economics

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2000

Author dc:creator

• Wilson, Gregory Arthur

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Waud, Roger N.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Lutton, Thomas J.
• Wentzler, Nancy A.

• Production Workers
• Translog Model
• Non-production Workers
• Labor Substitution
• Elasticity of Substitution

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-02022000-19340038

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/31108