DECOMPOSING LEARNING BY DOING IN NEW PLANTS

被引:190
作者
BAHK, BH [1 ]
GORT, M [1 ]
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[1] SUNY Buffalo, BUFFALO, NY 14260 USA
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10.1086/261888
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F [经济];
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02 ;
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The paper examines learning by doing in the context of a production function in which the other arguments are labor, human capital, physical capital, and vintage as a proxy for embodied technical change in physical capital. Learning is further decomposed into organization learning, capital learning, and manual task learning. The model is tested with time-series and cross-section data for various samples of up to 2,150 plants over a 14-year period.
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