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The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960 : A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis

Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2000

This paper offers a comparative study of the evolution of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan, using a game-theoretic framework in which an employment system is viewed as an equilibrium outcome of the strategic interactions among management, labor, and government. The paper identifies...

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Productivity Growth in the Automobile Industry, 1970-1980 : A Comparisonof Canada, Japan and the United States

Fuss, Melvyn A. - 1985

In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … factor productivity (TFP) gross. This is achieved through a novel application of the Viner-Wng envelope theorem, which allows … correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …

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Industrial Relations and Economic Performance Grievances and Productivity

Ichniowski, Casey - 1984

This study documents a significant inverse relationship between grievance rates and productivity. It is argued in the …

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Environmental Regulation and Manufacturing Productivity at the Plant Level

Gray, Wayne B. - 1993

We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental … total factor productivity, both levels and growth rates, and both annual measures and averages over the period. We find a … strong connection between regulation and productivity when regulation is measured by compliance costs. More regulated plants …

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Microeconomic Uncertainty, International Trade, and Aggregate Fluctuations

Alessandria, George - 2014

-level productivity in a two-country DSGE model with heterogenous producers and an endogenous dynamic export participation decision. First …

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The Political-Economy of U.S. Automobile Protection

Nelson, Douglas R. - 1994

This paper examines the political process through which the U.S. auto industry pursued and ultimately received protection from Japanese competition. Following a brief review of research on the competitiveness of the industry (section II) and on the effects of protection on industry performance...

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The Non-Optimality of Optimal Trade Policy : The U.S. Automobile Indust ry Revisited, 1979-1985

Krishna, Kala - 1989

We examine the sensitivity of simple calibration models of trade in imperfectly competitive industries to changes in model specification, as well as to changes in the calibration parameters. We find that not just the magnitude, but also the sign of the optimal trade policies is very sensitive to...

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The Model T

Eli, Shari; Hausman, Joshua K.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We ask (1) why the United States adopted the car more quickly than other countries before 1929, and (2) why in the United States the car changed from a luxury to a mass market good between 1909 and 1919. We argue that the answer is in part the success of the Model T in the United States and its...

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Working under different rules

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1994

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Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials and Rent Sharing in the U.S. Labor Market

Lamadon, Thibaut - 2019

The primary goal of our paper is to quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the U.S. labor market by estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and workers from ongoing employment relationships. To this end, we construct a matched employer-employee panel data set by...

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