@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4674, author={Akay, Gokhan H. and Yuksel, Mutlu}, title={Capital-Skill Complementarity: Evidence from Manufacturing Industries in Ghana}, year={2009}, month={Dec}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={4674}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4674}, abstract={Using U.S. manufacturing data, Griliches (1969) found evidence suggesting that capital equipment was more substitutable for unskilled than skilled labor. Griliches formulated this finding as the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants in industry and aggregate level. We use an unbalanced panel of plant-level data for manufacturing firms in Ghana during the 1991 and 1997 in four industries (food-bakery, textiles-garments, wood-furniture and metal-machinery). Our findings suggest that capital-skill complementarity holds in aggregate level and wood-furniture sector in Ghana. However, we reject the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis for food-bakery, textile-garment and metal-machinery sectors.}, keywords={elasticity of substitution;capital-skill complementarity;translog cost function}, }