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Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - In: The quarterly journal of economics 136 (2021) 2, pp. 1031-1087

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Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...

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Environmental Regulation and Manufacturing Productivity at the Plant Level

Gray, Wayne B. - 1993

We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental … total factor productivity, both levels and growth rates, and both annual measures and averages over the period. We find a … strong connection between regulation and productivity when regulation is measured by compliance costs. More regulated plants …

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Microeconomic Uncertainty, International Trade, and Aggregate Fluctuations

Alessandria, George - 2014

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Ability-biased technological transition, wage inequality, and economic growth

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Changing Returns to Scale in Manufacturing 1880-1930 : The Rise of (Skilled) Labor?

Lafortune, Jeanne; Lewis, Ethan; Martinez, Jose Pablo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper estimates returns to scale for manufacturing industries around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States by exploiting an industry-city panel data for the years 1880-1930. We estimate decreasing returns to scale on average over the period, contrary to most of the existing...

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The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment

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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...

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Structural Change Within versus Across Firms : Evidence from the United States

Ding, Xiang; Fort, Teresa C.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …

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Automation and Gender : Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap

Cortés, Patricia; Feng, Ying; Guida-Johnson, Nicolás; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation in 1980, they were more likely to shift to high-skill,...

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Proximity and investment : evidence from plant-level data

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