Capital-Skill Complementarity in Firms and in the Aggregate Economy

Capital-Skill Complementarity in Firms and in the Aggregate Economy

We study capital-skill complementarity in a multi-sector framework featuring firm-specific, multi-factor production functions and allowing for firm-specific factor-price wedges. We characterize the elasticity of the skill premium to the price of capital equipment in terms of firm-level elasticities...

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Hauptverfasser: Vogel, Jonathan, Berlingieri, Giuseppe, Boeri, Filippo, Lashkari, Danial
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