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Increasing Employment, Diminishing Returns, and Relative Shares*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

D. E. Horlacher  and
E. Smolensky
D. E. Horlacher
Affiliation:
Buckley University
E. Smolensky
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , February 1960 , pp. 143 - 147
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1960

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The authors are grateful for the assistance of Professors Weintraub, Davidson and Brown, and Ronald Bodkin.

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2 These conditions are pure competition in the factor market and a continuous, monotonie, aggregate production function in the range of rational factor hire.

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