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Analysis of the contribution of labor input to the growth of output or output per hour has typically been concerned with broadly defined characteristics such as education or age-sex composition. In this chapter, the contribution of separate levels of schooling, individual age groups, and each sex is measured. In the case of changes in the sex composition of employment, upper and lower bounds for the effects on labor productivity are derived, depending on whether all observed wage differentials can be ascribed to marginal productivity or to other factors such as discrimination.
University of Santa Clara. I am grateful to Bill Deacon for research assistance and two referees for their constructive comments. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada provided research support.
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Chinloy, P. (1988). The Effect of Shifts in the Composition of Employment on Labor Productivity Growth: Canada 1971–1979. In: Dogramaci, A., Färe, R. (eds) Applications of Modern Production Theory: Efficiency and Productivity. Studies in Productivity Analysis, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3253-1_8
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