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Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises
Chaurey, Ritam; Duong Trung Le - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
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How should we measure infrastructure? : the case of highways and streets
Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2024
The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its … effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and … paper encourages discussion about how to measure infrastructure capital, particularly highways and streets, and its effects. …
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Constructing BEA highways and streets net wealth stocks with detailed types of investment and engineering-based estimates of depreciation
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Kornfeld, Robert - 2024
This paper builds on a previous paper by the authors (Kornfeld and Fraumeni, 2022) that primarily used U.S. Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to produce updated estimates of net wealth stocks and...
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Green infrastructure and air pollution: evidence from highways connecting two megacities in China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high speed rail line connecting two megacities in China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution....
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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter; Wind, Joris de - 2010
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959174
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The adoption and diffusion of organizational innovation : evidence for the US economy
Lynch, Lisa M. (contributor) - 2007
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
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Who lives in the c-suite? : organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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The diffusion of information technology and the increased propensity of teams to transcend institutional and national borders
Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon G.; … - 2011
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
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Untangling trade and technology : evidence from local labor markets
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 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...
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