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Railroads and the Rise of the Factory : Evidence for the United States, 1850-70
Atack, Jeremy - 2008
production. At the same time United States experienced a quot;transportation revolutionquot;, a key component of which was the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769675
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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry : Domestic Production and Foreign Competition
Davis, Joseph H. - 2007
This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly … sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775911
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - 2023
The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346914
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Electricity Pricing to U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000
Davis, Steven J. - 2010
We develop a large customer-level database to study electricity pricing to U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 2000. We document tremendous dispersion in price per kWh, trace that dispersion to quantity discounts and spatial differentials, estimate the role of cost factors in quantity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759550
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Technical Progress in U.S. Manufacturing Sectors, 1948-1973 : an Application of Lie Groups
Sato, Ryuzo - 2010
derive a testable model of production and technical change. The econometric model is then applied to data derived by F …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760052
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The Real Exchange Rate and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing : State and Regional Results
Branson, William H. - 2010
manufacturing sector, disaggregated by industry sector and by production and non-production workers. In this paper we examine the … in production processes. The New York results are followed by an examination of manufacturing employment in five southern … employment to exchange rate movements are: the percent of the population living outside of SMSA areas, the level of production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760239
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Contributions and Determinants of Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Manufacturing Industries
Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 2010
brief survey of the major issues on this topic, a production function is formulated and estimated using tine series cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763464
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The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2018
Using data from a variety of sources, this paper comprehensively documents the dramatic changes in the manufacturing sector and the large decline in employment rates and hours worked among prime-aged Americans since 2000. We use cross-region variation to explore the link between declining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922973
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Trade Shocks and the Shifting Landscape of U.S. Manufacturing
Eriksson, Katherine - 2019
Using data over more than a century, we show that shifts in the location of manufacturing industries are a domestic reflection of what the international trade literature refers to as the product cycle in a cross-country context, with industries spawning in high-wage areas with larger pools of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890767
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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing
Boehm, Christoph - 2019
We provide new facts about the role of multinationals in the decline in U.S. manufacturing employment between 1993-2011, using a novel microdata panel with firm-level ownership and trade information. Multinational-owned establishments displayed lower employment growth than a narrow control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870553