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Failing the Test? The Flexible U.S. Job Market in the Great Recession

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to live up to expectations. The level and duration of...

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Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Bryson, Alex - 2006

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...

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Factor Adjustment, Quality Change, and Productivity Growth for U.S. Manufacturing

Bernstein, Jeffrey I. - 1999

This paper accounts for quality improvements and adjustment costs in all inputs to U.S. manufacturing production. Adjustment processes for non-capital inputs are slower than previously recognized. Annual adjustment percentages are: labor 77, capital 30, energy 20, and materials 21. Factor prices...

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Public R&D Policies and Cost Behavior of the US Manufacturing Industries

Mamuneas, Theofanis P. - 1995

policies in promoting growth of output and privately funded R&D investment in US manufacturing industries. Publicly financed R …

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The Effects of Public Infrastructure and R&D Capital on the Cost Structure and Performance of U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1991

structure and productivity performance of twelve two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries. The results suggest that there are … significant productive effects from these two types of capital. Their effects on the cost structure vary across industries and … each industry and estimate the 'social' rates of return to these capitals for the industries in their sample …

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