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How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate

Black, Sandra E; Lynch, Lisa M; Krivelyova, Anya - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. We find evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. We also...

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The Survival of Industrial Plants

Gort, Michael; Jensen, J. Bradford; Lee, Seong-Hoon - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

The study seeks to explain the attrition rate of new manufacturing plants in the United States in terms of three vectors of variables. The first explains how survival of the fittest proceeds through learning by firms (plants) about their own relative efficiency. The second explains how...

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Decomposing Learning By Doing in New Plants

Bahk, Byong-Hyong; Gort, Michael - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1992

The paper examines learning by doing in the context of a production function in which the other arguments are labor, human capital, physical capital, and vintage as a proxy for embodied technical change in physical capital. Learning is further decomposed into organization learning, capital...

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The Life Cycles of Industrial Plants

Lee, Seong-Hoon; Gort, Michael - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001

The paper presents a dynamic programming model with multiple classes of capital goods to explain capital expenditures on existing plants over their lives. The empirical specification shows that the path of capital expenditures is explained by (a) complementarities between old and new capital...

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Managerial Efficiency, Organizational Capital and Productivity

Gort, Michael; Lee, Seong-Hoon - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

The paper focuses on the impact of managerial efficiency on output. Three sources of managerial efficiency are identified: (a) superior initial managerial endowments, (b) the accumulation of managerial knowledge and skills through learning and (c) the impact of an effective market for managerial...

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How to Compete: The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity

Lynch, Lisa M; Black, Sandra E - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

National Employers Survey (EQW-NES), matched with the Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), we examine … the impact of workplace practices, information technology, and human capital investments on productivity. We estimate an … similar non-union plants, while those businesses that are unionized but maintain more traditional labor management relations …

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Decomposing Technical Change

Bahk, Byong-Hyong; Gort, Michael; Wall, Richard A - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1991

A production function is specified with human capital as a separate argument and with embodied technical change proxied by a variable that measures the average vintage of the stock of capital. The coefficients of this production function are estimated with cross section data for roughly 2,150...

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The Demand for Human Capital: A Microeconomic Approach

Gort, Michael; Lee, Seong-Hoon - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001

the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Research Database. The results show strong complementarity between physical and human … capital. Moreover, the complementarity is greater in high than in low technology industries. The results also show that … low technology industries. …

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Beyond the Incidence of Training: Evidence from a National Employers Survey

Lynch, Lisa M; Black, Sandra E - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

This paper seeks to provide new insight into how school and post school training investments are linked to employer workplace practices and outcomes using a unique nationally representative survey of establishments in the U.S., the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey...

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What's Driving the New Economy? The Benefits of Workplace Innovation

Black, Sandra E; Lynch, Lisa M - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

longitudinal data. We find a positive and significant relationship between the proportion of non-managers using computers and …

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