There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry … fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved; thus within-industry price differences are embodied in …

individual manufacturing plants to cast new light on recent changes in the United States wage structure. Our primary data source …, the Longitudinal Research Datafile (LRD) , contains observations on more than 300,000 manufacturing plants during Census …

We develop a large customer-level database to study electricity pricing to U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 2000 … smaller manufacturing customers by 10% or more. In contrast to a clear role for cost factors, our evidence provides no support …

-plant and within-plant components Our study combines household and establishment data for the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1982 …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

.S. is driven by an “up or out dynamic”. We track manufacturing establishments in Colombia vs. the US and find that slower … the other distinguishing feature of the Colombian manufacturing sector vis a vis the US …

harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large …

This paper investigates the motivations for, and implications of, the Automobile Industry code under the National … introductions and the annual automobile show as a means of regularizing employment in the industry. After documenting key features … of the automobile industry during the 1920s and 1930s and outlining the provisions of the automobile code, we analyze two …