triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly attracted by non-political content, many Croats listen to Serbian …

The new trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving …, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate …

We build up from the plant level an "aggregate(d)" Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant … more highly valued activities on average plays a stabilizing role in manufacturing growth. Our results have implications …

the Great Recession and ensuing recovery. Our multi-sector framework accounts completely for countries' trade, investment … in world trade in manufactures during 2008-2009. A shift in final spending away from tradable sectors, largely caused by … declines in durables investment efficiency, account for most of the collapse in trade relative to GDP. Shocks to trade …

examination of labor market integration to all male manufacturing workers in 114 cities from 1879 through 1919. In contrast to …

This paper uses a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms (1990-2006) and a propensity score reweighting …

simplest form of pay for performance, the piece rate, has been in decline in manufacturing in recent decades. We show both … theoretically and empirically that these changes are due to adoption of "modern manufacturing" in which firms produce a greater … in two companies that adopted modern manufacturing methods and changed their method of compensation from piece rates to …

This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two …

individual manufacturing plants to cast new light on recent changes in the United States wage structure. Our primary data source …, the Longitudinal Research Datafile (LRD) , contains observations on more than 300,000 manufacturing plants during Census …