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The exaggerated role of cost disease in soaring college. The rise of wages in jobs without productivity gains. But its role in rising college tuition has been greatly exaggerated. Note that by duality, the production and cost elasticities in 1 and 2 are identical. Pdfcreator allows you to convert files to pdf, merge and rearrange pdf files, create digital signatures and more. Baumols cost disease also called the baumol effect is a phenomenon observed in certain primarily labor intensive industries where there is little or no gain in productivity over time, resulting in rising production costs. William baumols cost disease predicted unrelenting spending increases in higher education way back in 1965. Baumols idea of cost disease is the fundamental intuition that there are some types of labors contributions that are irreplaceable by new technologies. Combine different pdf documents or other files types like images and merge them into.
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