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The Impact of Vintage and Survival on Productivity: Evidence from Cohorts of U.S. Manufacturing Plants
Jensen, J. Bradford; McGuckin, Robert H; Stiroh, Kevin J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000
This paper examines the evolution of productivity in U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 1992. We define a “vintage effect” as the change in productivity of recent cohorts of new plants relative to earlier cohorts of new plants, and a “survival effect” as the change in productivity of...
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Evidence on IO Technology Assumptions From the Longitudinal Research Database
Mattey, Joe - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993
This paper investigates whether a popular IO technology assumption, the commodity technology model, is appropriate for … plants from the Census Longitudinal Research Database. Extant empirical research has suggested the rejection of this model … explored here suggest that much of the rejection of the commodity technology model from aggregative data was spurious …
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IT Spending and Firm Productivity: Additional Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
Stolarick, Kevin M - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1999
The information systems (IS) "productivity paradox" is based on those studies that found little or no positive relationship between firm productivity and spending on IS. However, some earlier studies and one more recent study have found a positive relationship. Given the large amounts spent by...
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Academic Science, Industrial R&D, and the Growth of Inputs
Adams, James D; Sveikauskas, Leo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993
capital. Studies of high technology industries and recent labor studies agree in assigning a large role to science and … technology in the growth of human and physical capital, although direct tests of these relationships have not been carried out … tends to be in favor of the human and physical capital used intensively by high technology industries. This is the source of …
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Exiting Self-Employment: An Analysis of Asian Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses
Bates, Timothy - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1998
Part of the uniqueness of the immigrant Asian business community in the U.S. lies in the fact that many among the highly educated pursue self-employment in small-scale, low-yielding retail and personal service fields. This study analyzes owner departure for a nationwide sample of small...
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A Comparison of Job Creation and Job Destruction in Canada and the United States
Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John; Baldwin, John - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1994
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...
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Measuring Productivity Dynamics with Endogenous Choice of Technology and Capacity Utilization: An Application to Automobile Assembly
Biesebroeck, Johannes Van - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000
previous research claim that these transplants are more productive than incumbent plants and that they produce with a … heterogeneity in technology and productivity. We treat both types of heterogeneity as intrinsically unobservable. In the model …, plants choose technology before production starts. They condition subsequent input decisions on this choice. Maximum …
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Endogenous Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Acs, Zoltan J; Armington, Catherine - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
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The Span of the Effect of R&D in the Firm and Industry
Adams, James D; Jaffe, Adam B - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1994
Previous studies have found that the firm's own research and spillovers of research by related firms increase firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014683
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Exploring The Role Of Acquisition In The Performance Of Firms: Is The "Firm" The Right Unit Of Analysis?
Nguyen, Sang V; Mcguckin, Robert H - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1995
-level data taken from the Longitudinal Research Database (LRD) on the entire population of U.S. food manufacturing firms that …
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