Testing for R&D' Rents in Skilled Workers' Wage in the Manufacturing Industry of Colombia

Hernández Umaña, Iván Darío

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Testing for R&D' Rents in Skilled Workers' Wage in the Manufacturing Industry of Colombia

Iván Darío Hernández Umaña

National University of Colombia

Revista de Economia del Rosario, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 84-115, June 2001

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This paper examines if firm investments in research and experimental development (R&D) activities generate quasi-rents in the wages of skilled workers in the manufacturing industries of Colombia. It will test the hypothesis that variations in wages of skilled workers and in R&D spending are both endogenously determined in manufacturing firms. By testing this hypothesis I determine whether skills and R&D activities offer an explanation for quasi-rents among workers wages.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 36

Keywords: Research and Development, skilled workers, wages, quasi rents

JEL Classification: J31,J44

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Date posted: September 6, 2006

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Hernández Umaña, Iván Darío, Testing for R&D' Rents in Skilled Workers' Wage in the Manufacturing Industry of Colombia. Revista de Economia del Rosario, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 84-115, June 2001. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=928516

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