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ESTIMATION OF COB-DOUGLAS AND TRANSLOG PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS WITH CAPITAL AND GENDER DISAGGREGATED LABOR INPUTS IN THE USA

Journal of Smart Economic Growth

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Title Statement ESTIMATION OF COB-DOUGLAS AND TRANSLOG PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS WITH CAPITAL AND GENDER DISAGGREGATED LABOR INPUTS IN THE USA
 
Personal Name Muwanga, Gertrude Sebunya
Department of Policy and Development Economics, School of Economics, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University.
 
Uncontrolled Index Term Economics; Gender; Interdisciplinary Application; Social Science; planning and development
 
Summary, etc. This is an empirical investigation of the homogeneity of gender disaggregated labor using the Douglas, single/multi-factor translog production functions; and labor productivity functions for the USA.   The results based on the single factor translog model, indicated that: an increase in the capita/female labor ratio increases aggregate output; male labor is more productive than female labor, which is more productive than capital; a simultaneous increase in quantity allocated and productivity of the leads to an increase in output; female labor productivity has grown slower than male labor productivity; it much easier to substitute male labor for capital compared to female labor; and the three inputs are neither perfect substitutes nor perfect complements. As a consequence, male and female labor are not homogenous inputs. Efforts to investigate the factors influencing gender disaggregated labor productivity; and designing policies to achieve gender parity in numbers/productivity in the labor force and increasing the ease of substitutability between male labor and female labor are required.
 
Publication, Distribution, Etc. Journal of Smart Economic Growth
 
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Data Source Entry Journal of Smart Economic Growth; Vol 2, No 3 (2017): JSEG VOL. 2 NO. 3 YEAR 2017
 
Language Note eng
 
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note Copyright (c) 2018 Gertrude Sebunya Muwanga