The measurement of labour content: a general approach

Naoki Yoshihara () and Roberto Veneziani

No 47, CCES Discussion Paper Series from Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical foundations. Then, a simple measure of labour content is uniquely characterised, which is consistent with common practice in input-output analysis and with a number of recent approaches in value theory.

Keywords: labour content; labour productivity; technical change; axiomatic analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D57 J24 O33 D46 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 p.
Date: 2013-05
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Working Paper: The Measurement of Labour Content: A General Approach (2013)
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