We build up from the plant level an "aggregate(d)" Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant … more highly valued activities on average plays a stabilizing role in manufacturing growth. Our results have implications …

. Gollop and D. Jorgenson for U.S. manufacturing industries for the years 1948-1973. This is the first empirical work in … 21-industry system which has a high degree of explanatory power: The system's weighted-R2 is 0.9675 and all coefficients … given industry of the model is probably new, it is easily characterized within the Lie group structure and the system …

This paper investigates the shift in demand towards skilled labor in U.S. manufacturing. Between 1979 and 1989 …. employment of production workers in manufacturing dropped by 2.2 mil1ion or 15 percent while employment of non-production workers … towards industries with higher shares of skilled labor. Strong correlations between within-industry skil1 upgrading and both …

costs are explicitly specified. The model is estimated for the manufacturing sector of the three countries using annual data …

show that most of the decline in pollution from U.S. manufacturing has been the result of changing technology, rather than … manufacturing output increased 70 percent. This improvement must result from a combination of two trends: (1) changes in production … changes in the mix of goods produced, although the pace of that technology change has slowed over time. Second, I present …

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

-biased technical change. Advances in information technology (IT) are among the most powerful forces bearing on the economy. Employers …

these shortcomings by focusing on technological learning-by-doing: the notion that it takes workers time using a technology …

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 …