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Moonshot : Public R&D and Growth
Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U ….S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …
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Globotics and Development : When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable
Baldwin, Richard - 2020
service-led development path may become the norm rather than the exception; think India, not China. Since success in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479255
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The Effects of Overseas Investment on Domestic Employment
Chen, Tain-Jy - 2003
In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing industry. Treating domestic production and overseas production as two distinctive outputs from a joint production function, we may estimate the effect of overseas production on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468538
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The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2018
Using data from a variety of sources, this paper comprehensively documents the dramatic changes in the manufacturing sector and the large decline in employment rates and hours worked among prime-aged Americans since 2000. We use cross-region variation to explore the link between declining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453246
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Who Loses Under Power Plant Cap-and-Trade Programs?
Curtis, E. Mark - 2014
This paper tests how a major cap-and-trade program, known as the NOx Budget Trading Program (NBP), impacted labor markets in the regions where it was implemented. The cap-and-trade program dramatically decreased levels of NOx emissions and added substantial costs to energy producers. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457858
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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458826
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The U.S. Manufacturing Sector's Response to Higher Electricity Prices : Evidence from State-Level Renewable Portfolio Standards
Wolverton, Ann; Shadbegian, Ronald John; Gray, Wayne B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
While several papers examine the effects of renewable portfolio standards (RPS) on electricity prices, they mainly rely on state-level data and there has been little research on how RPS policies affect manufacturing activity via their effect on electricity prices. Using plant-level data for the...
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David - 2016
The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze … or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal …-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …
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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil
Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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