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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 394-399
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010390159
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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219298
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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060261
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2017
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962728
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Outsourcing and Volatility
Bergin, Paul R. - 2007
While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth, recently there have been misgivings regarding its fickleness and volatility. This paper is among the first in the trade literature to study the second moment properties of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776813
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Political Economy, Sectoral Shocks, and Border Enforcement
Hanson, Gordon H.; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2021
In this paper, we examine the correlation between sectoral shocks and border enforcement in the United States. Enforcement of national borders is the main policy instrument the U.S. government uses to combat illegal immigration. The motivation for the exercise is to see whether border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221857
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Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel
Gandal, Neil; Hanson, Gordon H.; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021
In the early 1990s Israel experienced a large and concentrated surge of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Most Russian immigrants had high education levels relative to the average Israeli. Despite the size and skill mix of the immigration shock, existing research has found little...
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Why Isn't Mexico Rich?
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137012
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The Dynamics of Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2015
extension of our approach to multivariate diffusions, in which one can permit innovations to productivity to be transmitted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011045
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The Industry Origins of Japanese Economic Growth
Jorgenson, Dale W.; Nomura, Koji - 2021
economic growth is dominated by investments and productivity growth in information technology, both for individual industries … and the economy as a whole. We also show that the revival of total factor productivity growth accounts for the modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210549