U.S. Production Technology and the Effects of Imports on the Demand for Primary Factors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19319366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christis G Tombazos (0000-0002-6763-3457, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 480-483 |
| Publication date | 1998-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/003465398557573 |
| OpenAlex | W2086654541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
We employ a unit cost function, in the context of the production theory approach, to estimate the Allen-Uzawa effect of various categories of imports on U.S. primary factors. To circumvent curvature-related problems, often associated with similar studies that do not invoke separability, we combine the global imposition of concavity with a symmetric normalized quadratic representation of the unit cost function (which remains flexible after curvature enforcing reparameterizations). Challenging conventional wisdom, we find that the positive, downstream- production-related, employment effects of the majority of imports are significant enough to produce a detectable net increase in labor demand
Context (archaeology) · Curvature · Downstream (manufacturing) · Econometrics · Economics · Function (biology) · Microeconomics · Operations management · Production (economics) · Quadratic equation · Quadratic function · Representation (politics) · Unit (ring theory) · Economic Growth and Productivity · Economic theories and models · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |