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NEW EVIDENCE ON SEX SEGREGATION AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN WAGES FROM MATCHED EMPLOYEE-EMPLOYER DATA*

Troske, Kenneth R; Bayard, Kimberly N; Hellerstein, Judith - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1998

-establishment cells. This new data set is especially useful because earlier research on this topic relied on data sets that covered only a … finding contrasts sharply with the conclusions of previous research (especially Groshen, 1991), which indicated that sex … segregation accounted for essentially all of the sex wage gap. Further research into the sources of within-establishment within …

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Interfirm Segregation and the Black/White Wage Gap

Troske, Kenneth R; Carrington, William J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1996

This paper studies interfirm racial segregation in two newly developed firm-level databases. Within the representative MSA, we find that the interfirm distribution of black and white workers is close to what would be implied by the random assignment of workers to firms. However, we also find...

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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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Sex Segregation in U.S. Manufacturing

Troske, Kenneth R; Carrington, William J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1996

This paper studies interplant sex segregation in the U.S. manufacturing industry. The study differs from previous work in that we have detailed information on the characteristics of both workers and firms, and because we measure segregation in a new and better way. We report three main findings....

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Gender Segregation Small Firms

Troske, Kenneth R; Carrington, William J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1992

previous research on interfirm segregation has studied only large firms and because it is easier to link the demographic …

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The Worker-Establishment Characteristics Database

Troske, Kenneth R - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1995

.S. This paper describes how this data set was constructed and assesses the usefulness of these data for economic research. In …

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The Time-Series Pattern Of Firm Growth In Two Industries

Troske, Kenneth R - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1992

immediately prior to exit, and compares these patterns across the two industries. While previous research has examined the post …-entry time-series behavior of firms, this research has focused exclusively on manufacturing firms. Examining the behavior of …

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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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