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U.S. Wages in General Equilibrium : the Effects of Prices, Technology, and Factor Supplies, 1963-1991

Harrigan, James; Balaban, Rita A. - 2021

Wage inequality in the United States has increased, and many suspect that the main causes are changes in technology, international competition, and factor supplies. Our empirical model estimates the general equilibrium relationship between wages and technology, prices, and factor supplies. The...

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Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U.S. Manufacturing Industries : Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufacturing

Berman, Eli; Bound, John; Griliches, Zvi - 2021

This paper investigates the shift in demand towards skilled labor in U.S. manufacturing. Between 1979 and 1989. employment of production workers in manufacturing dropped by 2.2 mil1ion or 15 percent while employment of non-production workers rose by 3 percent. A decomposition of changing...

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Water Infrastructure and Health in U.S. Cities

Beach, Brian - 2023

Between 1900 and 1930 typhoid fever and other waterborne diseases were largely eradicated from U.S. cities. This achievement required a mix of technological, scientific, economic, and bureaucratic innovations. This article examines how the interaction of those forces influenced water and...

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Changes in U.S. Wages 1976-2000 : Ongoing Skill Bias or Major Technological Change?

Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A. - 2021

This paper examines the determinants of changes in the US wage structure over the period 1976-2000, with the objective of evaluating whether these changes are best described as the result of ongoing skill-biased technological change, or alternatively, as the outcome of an adjustment process...

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The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth

Petrin, Amil - 2011

We build up from the plant level an "aggregate(d)" Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant's contribution to the change in aggregate final demand between 1976 and 1996. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2010) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which...

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing

Levinson, Arik - 2014

Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real manufacturing output increased 70 percent. This improvement must result from a combination of two trends: (1) changes in production or abatement processes (quot;technologyquot;);...

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The Broadband Bonus : Accounting for Broadband Internet's Impact on U.S. GDP

Greenstein, Shane M. - 2013

How much economic value did the diffusion of broadband create? We provide benchmark estimates for 1999 to 2006. We observe $39 billion of total revenue in Internet access in 2006, with broadband accounting for $28 billion of this total. Depending on the estimate, households generated $20 to $22...

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The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors

Moretti, Enrico - 2019

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald A. - 2014

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

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