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Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

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dc.creator Haouas, Ilham
dc.creator Yagoubi, Mahmoud
dc.creator Heshmati, Almas
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:11:39Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:11:39Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20649
dc.identifier ppn:362044015
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20649
dc.description This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971?96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment parameter is specified in terms of factors affecting the speed of adjustment. Industries are assumed to adjust their labour inputs towards a desired level of labour-use. A translog labour requirement function is specified in terms of observable variables and is used to model the desired level of labour-use. The labour requirement is specified to be function of wages, output, quasi-fixed capital stock and technology. The empirical results show that in the long run, employment demand responds greatest to value-added, followed by capital stock changes, and least by wages. The speed of adjustment in employment and the degree of labour-use efficiency show large variations among the sectors and over time.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 687
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject E24
dc.subject C23
dc.subject L60
dc.subject J23
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject dynamics
dc.subject employment
dc.subject labour-use efficiency
dc.subject panel data
dc.subject Tunisia
dc.subject speed of adjustment
dc.subject technical change
dc.subject Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
dc.subject Beschäftigung
dc.subject Arbeitsnachfrage
dc.subject Tunesien
dc.title Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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