Metal {Greene}R Documentation

Production for SIC 33

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 27

observation : region

country : United States

Usage

data(Metal)

Format

A dataframe containing :

Obs
observation
ValueAdd
output
Labor
labor input
Capital
capital input

Original description

“Primary metals, 27 statewide observations.”

Note

“Data are per etablisment, labor is a measure of labor input, and capital is the gross value of plant and equipment. A scale factor used to normalize the capital figure in the original study has been omitted. Further details on construction of the data are given in Aigner et al. (1977) and in Hildebrand and Liu (1957).”

Source

Aigner , D. , K. Lovell and P. Schmidt (1977) “Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production models”, Journal of Econometrics , 6, 21-37. Hildebrand, G. and T. Liu (1957) Manufacturing production functions in the United States, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, Table F6.1.


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