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As a supplement to the findings presented in an article in volume 2/1978 of this journal byG. Fink andJ. Skolka some further results concerning the capital and labour intensity of Austria's trade are provided. These results are based on a more disaggregated input-output approach and on modified ways to measure direct capital and labour inputs and seem to strenghten the hypothesis that in 1964 the capital and labour intensity of Austria's foreign trade was more or less neutral.
The same approach was used to investigate the effects of the changing composition of export and import bundles on the factor intensities for the period 1962/1977. Although the structure of both exports and imports changed remarkable over this period the total content of labour and capital remained rather stable and the evolution was almost paralell for exports and imports.
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G. Fink-J. Skolka: Die Kapital- und Arbeitsintensität des Österreichischen Außenhandels 1964, Empirica 2/1978.
W. Leontief: Domestic Production and Foreign Trade: The American Capital Position Re-examined, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Nr. 4/1953.
Österreichisches Statistisches Zentralamt-Bundeskammer der gewerblichen Wirtschaft-Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung: Input-Output-Tabelle 1964, Wien 1973.
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Richter, J. Außenhandelsstruktur und Faktorintensität 1962/1977. Empirica 6, 153–161 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00926543
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