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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2007
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058707
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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire: Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News
Ilut, Cosmin; Kehrig, Matthias; Schneider, Martin - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2015
We study the distribution of employment growth when hiring responds more to bad shocks than to good shocks. Such a concave hiring rule endogenously generates higher moments observed in establishment-level Census data for both the cross section and the time series. In particular, both aggregate...
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Efficiency Implications of Corporate Diversification: Evidence from Micro Data
Emm, Ekaterina; Kale, Jayant - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2006
In this study, we contribute to the ongoing research on the rationales for corporate diversification. Using plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau, we examine whether combining several lines of business in one entity leads to increased productive efficiency. Studying the direct effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058655
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Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector
Basker, Emek - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2011
productivity. I find that early scanners increased a store’s labor productivity, on average, by approximately 4.5 percent in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371923
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Local Environmental Regulation and Plant-Level Productivity
Becker, Randy - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2010
This paper examines the impact of environmental regulation on the productivity of manufacturing plants in the United … productivity of being in a county with higher environmental compliance costs is relatively small and often not statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671277
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The Productivity Advantage and Global Scope of U.S. Multinational Firms
Raymond Mataloni, Jr. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2011
This paper examines whether the productivity of U.S. business establishments is related to the extent to which their … multinationals possess proprietary assets that confer a productivity advantage over their domestically-oriented rivals, and that this … productivity advantage are able to absorb the costs and overcome the risks of operating in a wide range of foreign countries, from …
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WHO DO UNIONS TARGET? UNIONIZATION OVER THE LIFE-CYCLE OF U.S. BUSINESSES
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2014
constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides …
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The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Risk, and Product Market Competition
Brav, Alon; Jiang, Wei; Kim, Hyunseob - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant … and expected returns, we show how changes to target firms’ productivity are associated with a decline in systemic risk …
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The Eclipse of the U.S. Tire Industry
Rajan, Raghuram; Volpin, Paolo; Zingales, Luigi - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1997
This paper undertakes an in-depth analysis of the tire industry over the period 1970-1990. It attempts to uncover the causes and consequences of the acquisition activity in the industry in the 1980’s, which resulted in all but one large U.S. tire manufacturer being sold to foreign companies....
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INNOVATION OUTPUT CHOICES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF FIRMS IN THE U.S.
Sanchez, Juana - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2014
, controlling form size, productivity, time and type of R&D. Company size and company productivity as well as time do not lean the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075612