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The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S.
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
Union membership displayed an inverted U-shaped pattern over the 20th century, while the distribution of income sketched a U. A model of unions is developed to analyze these phenomena. There is a distribution of firms in the economy. Firms hire capital, plus skilled and unskilled labor....
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Does the Retirement Consumption Puzzle Differ Across the Distribution?
Fisher, Jonathan D.; Marchand, Joseph - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2011
Previous research has repeatedly found a puzzling one-time drop in the mean and median of consumption at retirement … distributional component to the retirement consumption puzzle. …
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Does the Retirement Consumption Puzzle Differ Across the Distribution?
Fisher, Jonathan D.; Marchand, Joseph - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2011
Previous research has repeatedly found a puzzling one-time drop in consumption at retirement at the mean or median …. This study expands upon the previous work by examining these same retirement changes across the entire consumption …
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IPO Waves, Product Market Competition, and the Going Public Decision: Theory and Evidence
Chemmanur, Thomas J.; He, Jie - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
We develop a new rationale for IPO waves based on product market considerations. Two firms, with differing productivity levels, compete in an industry with a significant probability of a positive productivity shock. Going public, though costly, not only allows a firm to raise external capital...
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The Impact of Vintage and Survival on Productivity: Evidence from Cohorts of U.S. Manufacturing Plants
Jensen, J. Bradford; McGuckin, Robert H; Stiroh, Kevin J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000
This paper examines the evolution of productivity in U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 1992. We define a “vintage effect” as the change in productivity of recent cohorts of new plants relative to earlier cohorts of new plants, and a “survival effect” as the change in productivity of...
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Evidence on IO Technology Assumptions From the Longitudinal Research Database
Mattey, Joe - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993
This paper investigates whether a popular IO technology assumption, the commodity technology model, is appropriate for … plants from the Census Longitudinal Research Database. Extant empirical research has suggested the rejection of this model … explored here suggest that much of the rejection of the commodity technology model from aggregative data was spurious …
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IT Spending and Firm Productivity: Additional Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
Stolarick, Kevin M - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1999
The information systems (IS) "productivity paradox" is based on those studies that found little or no positive relationship between firm productivity and spending on IS. However, some earlier studies and one more recent study have found a positive relationship. Given the large amounts spent by...
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Academic Science, Industrial R&D, and the Growth of Inputs
Adams, James D; Sveikauskas, Leo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993
capital. Studies of high technology industries and recent labor studies agree in assigning a large role to science and … technology in the growth of human and physical capital, although direct tests of these relationships have not been carried out … tends to be in favor of the human and physical capital used intensively by high technology industries. This is the source of …
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Exiting Self-Employment: An Analysis of Asian Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses
Bates, Timothy - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1998
Part of the uniqueness of the immigrant Asian business community in the U.S. lies in the fact that many among the highly educated pursue self-employment in small-scale, low-yielding retail and personal service fields. This study analyzes owner departure for a nationwide sample of small...
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A Comparison of Job Creation and Job Destruction in Canada and the United States
Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John; Baldwin, John - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1994
In recent years a growing number of countries have constructed data series on job creation and job destruction using establishment-level data sets. This paper provides a description and detailed comparison of these new data series for the United States and Canada. First, the Canadian and United...
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