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Next we consider the full seperability (JS) case. The coefficients of the estimated production functions in the JS case are provided in Tables 7.1 and 7.2 respectively. The labour and capital coefficients are significant and the R2 is quite high. The fit is good enough for further analysis. Using the formulae (4.18) for shadow wages, we then calculate them using the estimated equations.
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In fact the support is partial. Under partial separability males are more productive than female in OAEs. For all India average, there is not much difference between male and female labour.
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Unfortunately we do not have the data on wage over each cross-sectional unit. This prevented us from testing the equality of marginal product to the observed wages econometrically as done by some authors (Jacoby 1993; Skoufias 1994; Abdulai and Regmi 2000 etc.).
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Our result is in line with the findings of Skoufias (1994).
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Sengupta, A., Datta, S.K., Mondal, S. (2013). Gender and Perfect Separability: The Indian Experience. In: Productivity, Separability and Deprivation. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1056-6_7
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