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Wirtschaftswachstum Und Die Verwendung Des Arbeitspotentials

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  • Harald Gerfin

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The present article deals systematically with the objections against the traditional manpower‐approach. The result thereof is a catalogue of variably urgent research aims. The wide‐spread pessimism concerning the possibilities of methodically extending the manpower‐approach thereby turns out to be at least premature. The traditional manpower‐approach is very inflexible. It is based on the assumption of a predetermined expansion of final demand and labour productivity and takes coefficients as fixed. This means among other things that political decisions —like determining the teacher/pupil‐ratio or the share of research workers among total personnel—cannot be changed. In the article is outlined how to overcome these shortcomings. Allowing for decision margins in dividing up the labour force between the production of consumption‐ and capital‐goods and between education and research poses difficult theoretical and statistical problems; but it does not fundamentally make impossible the application of the manpower‐approach.

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  • Harald Gerfin, 1970. "Wirtschaftswachstum Und Die Verwendung Des Arbeitspotentials," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(4), pages 806-832, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:kyklos:v:23:y:1970:i:4:p:806-832
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.1970.tb01046.x
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