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A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the … transitory. In this article, I use a new data set on manufacturing employment by occupation to do cument four stylized facts ab … of workers with little formal education in manufacturing relative to other industries has declined. Second, the disapp …
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The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD …-countries over the period 1972-1992 show large inter-industry differences. One reason for these differences is knowledge and capital …
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We analyze output growth risk with respect to financial conditions across U.S. manufacturing industries. Using a multi … goods sector and the more resilient nondurable goods sector. Moreover, we show that industry characteristics significantly …
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Although four out of five manufacturing employees work in production occupations in most countries (as opposed to white … methods has affected the demand for different groups of manufacturing production workers. In this article, I use new … manufacturing since the 1950s. They tended to work in craftsman occupations, and commanded wages even rivaling those of some white …
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Technology-based ("FinTech") lenders increased their market share of U.S. mortgage lending from 2 percent to 8 percent …
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The U.S. economy has been going through a striking structural transformation - the secular reallocation of employment across sectors - over the past several decades. We propose a decomposition framework to assess the contributions of various margins of firm dynamics to this shift. Using...
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