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High-Tech Capital Formation and Labor Composition in U.S. Manufacturing Industries : An Exploratory Analysis

Berndt, Ernst R.; Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; … - 2022

In this paper we report results of an exploratory empirical effort examining relationships between investments in high-tech information technology capital and the distribution of employment, both by occupation and by level of educational attainment. Our data cover the two-digit U.S....

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S....

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Assessing the Productivity of Information Technology Equipment in U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; Berndt, Ernst R. - 2021

1986. The sign of the estimated elasticity of demand for labor with respect to changes in the stock of 0 capital is evenly … divided in the fourteen industries, but whether positive or negative, in all industries this elasticity increases in absolute … the elasticity of technical progress with respect to 0-capital are very small in magnitude implying that increases in o …

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Markups in U.S. And Japanese Manufacturing : a Short Run Econometric Analysis

Morrison Paul, Catherine J. - 2021

. Adjustment costs on both labor and capital and economies of scale are incorporated. Estimation is carried out using manufacturing …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are 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...

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Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex : an Historical Analysis

Goldin, Claudia - 2022

Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...

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