TECHNICAL CHANGE AND FACTOR BIAS IN POLISH INDUSTRY (1962-1983)

• 成果类型: Note
• 署名作者: TERRELL, K
• 署名单位: Czech Academy of Sciences; Charles University Prague
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.2307/2110034
• 发表日期: 1993-11
• 页码: 741-747
• 关键词: technological-progress; GROWTH; PRODUCTIVITY

摘要

This paper provides improved estimates of technological change and the first estimates of factor bias in Polish industry. The analysis uses newly generated data on western capital (the factor assumed responsible for technical change), adjusts capital for capacity utilization and tests for more complex specifications of the production function. The major findings are (a) the trend in technical change was non-increasing over the period and technological change was western capital using in only two industries (suggesting the government misallocated resources), and (b) technical change was nonneutral in six of the eight industries (suggesting the existing literature suffers from misspecification).