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Results of search for labor-augmenting follow:
labor-augmenting:
One of the ways in which an effectiveness variable could be included in a
production function in a Solow model. If effectiveness A is multiplied
by labor L but not by capital K, then we say the effectiveness variable is
labor-augmenting.
See also Harrod-neutral, a near-synonym. It is suggested in the
literature using the term Harrod-neutral that some inventions or other
technical changes might be measured to be labor-augmenting.
Source: Romer, 1996, p 7
Contexts: macro
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