Pollution emitted by US manufacturers declined markedly over the past several decades, even as real manufacturing … output increased. I first show that most of the decline in US manufacturing pollution has resulted from changing production … percent -- of the cleanup of US manufacturing. (JEL F18, L23, L60, O30, Q52, Q53) …

suggest a skill-bias in export destinations. We test the theory using a panel of Argentine manufacturing firms. We find that … Argentine firms exporting to high-income countries hired more skilled workers than other exporters and domestic firms. Instead …

-using US manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT-intensive industries … that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases, when …

This paper uses a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms (1990-2006) and a propensity score reweighting … estimator to show that multinational firms acquire the most productive domestic firms, which, on acquisition, conduct more … technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that …

We use broad-based yet detailed data from the economy's goods-producing sectors to investigate firms' ownership of …

, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing … manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in …