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Innovation in the U.S. Government
Bruce, Joshua R. - 2020
This paper examines the U.S. government's intramural research and development efforts over a 40-year period, drawing together multiple human capital, government spending, and patent datasets. The U.S. Federal Government innovates along four dimensions: technological, organizational, regulatory,...
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State Capacity as an Organizational Problem : Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State Over 100 Years
Mastrorocco, Nicola; Teso, Edoardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how the organization of the state evolves over the process of development of a nation, using a new dataset on the internal organization of the U.S. federal bureaucracy over 1817-1905. First, we show a series of facts, describing how the size of the state, its presence across the...
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Green manufacturing : case studies in lean and sustainability
2008
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Sustaining lean : case studies in transforming culture
2009
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Bank commitment relationships, cash flow constraints, and liquidity management
Morgan, Donald P. (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Protecting Their Intellectual Assets : Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)
Cohen, Wesley M. - 2000
be the least emphasized by firms in the majority of manufacturing industries, and secrecy and lead time tend to be … innovations, secrecy now appears to be much more heavily employed across most industries than previously. Our results on the …' product industries, such as chemicals, versus complex' product industries, such as telecommunications equipment or …
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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing : The Role of Computer Investment
Dunne, Timothy - 2000
dispersion, (2) much of the between plant increase in dispersion is within industries, (3) the between plant measures of wage and …
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Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing
Estevao, Marcello - 1999
dramatically in the last ten years. However, there is only scant evidence on the industries that are hiring this type of worker. In … particular, some anecdotal evidence points to the fact that manufacturing industries have substantially stepped up their demand …
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
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Changing Returns to Scale in Manufacturing 1880-1930 : The Rise of (Skilled) Labor?
Lafortune, Jeanne; Lewis, Ethan; Martinez, Jose Pablo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper estimates returns to scale for manufacturing industries around the turn of the twentieth century in the … because the return to labor grew. We find that this was more marked in industries that were more intensive in human capital …
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