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R&D and Productivity Growth : Comparing Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Firms
Griliches, Zvi - 1985
We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing firms, in both Japan and the U.S., and relate them to differences in the rates of growth in their capital-labor ratios and in their intensities of R&D effort. Japanese firms spent...
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Comparing Productivity Growth : An Exploration of French and U.S. Industrial and Firm Data
Griliches, Zvi - 1982
This paper compares and analyzes the growth of productivity in the manufacturing industries and firms in France and the …
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Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U.S. Manufacturing Industries : Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufacturing
Berman, Eli - 1993
rose by 3 percent. A decomposition of changing employment patterns in each of 450 industries reveals that the defense …-production workers since the shift is mostly due to changes in labor demand within industries rather than reallocation of employment … towards industries with higher shares of skilled labor. Strong correlations between within-industry skil1 upgrading and both …
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