Is there evidence for a marginalist demand for labour?
估计了美国制造业中生产工人小时的固定产出弹性，发现不支持新古典劳动力需求理论，且工资与就业的负相关关系对数据和模型设定不稳健。
This paper presents estimates of the fixed-output elasticity of demand for production worker hours in U.S. manufacturing tha t are unsupportive of the neoclassical theory of labor demand. Evalua ting the elasticity of labor demand from the coefficient on product w ages in an employment function, it is shown that the consensus findin g of significant inverse wage-employment relationship at given output levels is not robust with respect to alternative price and output da ta or a specification of the employment equation which allows for dec lining rates of technical progress. Copyright 1987 by Oxford University Press.