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Decomposing Learning by Doing in New Plants
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Bahk, B.-H., & Gort, M.
- Venue
- Journal of Political Economy
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1993-08
- Volume
- 101
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 561-583
- ISSN
- 0022-3808 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-534X
- OpenAlex
- W2093356448
- Cited by
- 403
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 17.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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