Showing 1 - 7 of 7
In recent years a growing number of countries have constructed data series on job creation and job destruction using establishment-level data sets. This paper provides a description and detailed comparison of these new data series for the United States and Canada. First, the Canadian and United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014678
By exploiting establishment-level data for U.S. manufacturing, this paper sheds new light on the source of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. Based on recent theoretical work by Caselli (1999) and Kremer and Maskin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533905
Using a new dataset on technology usage in U.S. manufacturing plants, this paper describes how technology usage varies … technology adoption. The main findings indicate that larger plants more readily use new technologies, plants owned by firms with … high R&D-to-sales ratios adopt technologies more rapidly, and the relationship between plant age and technology usage is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058643
The empirical modeling of imperfectly competitive markets has been constrained by the difficulty of obtaining micro data on individual producer prices, outputs, and costs. In this paper we utilize micro data collected from the 1977 Census of Manufactures to study the determinants of plant-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058764
This paper estimates long-run demand functions for production workers, production worker hours, and nonproduction workers using micro data from U.S. establishment surveys. The paper focuses on estimation of the wage and output elasticities of labor demand using data on over 41,000 U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058821
establishment) and their relationship to the extent of advanced-technology usage at U.S, manufacturing plants. We begin by sketching … a model of technology adoption based on Lucas (1978) that provides a framework for interpreting the data analysis. We … then study a new Census Bureau survey of technology use at manufacturing plants. Workers in establishments that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058844
between changes in technology and the structure of employment and wages. We focus on the nonproduction labor share (measured …) within plant secular changes are concentrated in recessions; and (iv) while observable indicators of changes in technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058863