Employment creation, technological efficiency, and distributional judgements : a case study in road construction / [by] G.W. Irvin
July 1975
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pp 1-34.
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The present article is concerned with the relationship between distributional and efficiency criteria and the objective of employment creation in a single sector, that of road construction. The work is based on a series of case studies carried out in Iran, one such study being presented here, in which the potential for substituting labour for equipment is explored and techniques of social benefit-cost analysis applied to determining technology selection. Optimal factor use and hence employment is shown to depend, inter alia, on explicit judgements concerning income distribution.
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- consumption
- value
- price
- labour
- equipment
- sector
- saving
- employment
- construction
- government
- technology
- table
- figure
- road construction
- market
- worker
- investment
- expenditure
- time preference
- claim
