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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
various dimensions of upgrading --- learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …
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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan
Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …
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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
Roux, Nicolás de; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...
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Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle : Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms
Diao, Xinshen; Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light on this puzzle, we disaggregate firms in the...
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research,...
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Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing : Evidence from Certification Elections
Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Johnson, Matthew S.; Tadjfar, Nagisa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We assess whether and why trade competition partly explains the sharp decline in U.S. workers' attempts to organize labor unions in recent decades. We find that between 1990-2007, import competition due to the "China Shock" lowered union certification elections by 4.5% among workers in...
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The Plant-Level View of an Industrial Policy : The Korean Heavy Industry Drive of 1973
Kim, Minho; Lee, Munseob; Shin, Yongseok - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Does industrial policy work? This is a subject of long-standing debates among economists and policymakers. Using newly digitized microdata, we evaluate the Korean government's policy that promoted heavy and chemical industries between 1973 and 1979 by cutting taxes and building new industrial...
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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has...
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of …
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Infrastructure Investment and Labor Monopsony Power
Brooks, Wyatt; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Kondo, Illenin O.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper we study whether or not transportation infrastructure disrupts local monopsony power in labor markets using an expansion of the national highway system in India. Using panel data on manufacturing firms, we find that monopsony power in labor markets is reduced among firms near newly...
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