作者：Miller, SM; Upadhyay, MP
作者单位：University of Connecticut; Eastern Illinois University
摘要：We study the effects of openness, trade orientation, and human capital on total factor productivity for a pooled sample of developed and developing countries. Total factor productivity emerges from a parsimonious specification of the aggregate production function. Potential determinants of total factor productivity include measures of openness, trade orientation, and human capital. Higher openness benefits total factor productivity. Outward-oriented countries experience higher total factor pro...
作者：Teal, F
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Real wage rates in Ghana have fallen substantially over the last 20 years. In this paper survey data for the years 1991-1995 is used to assess the changes which have occurred in the 1990s. It is shown that the real wage rate for the unskilled has continued to fall. Factor share equations for skilled and unskilled labour are estimated, which show the rise in skilled wages leading to substitution to unskilled labour but no rise in the share of skilled labour in income. The own price elasticities...
