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Failing the Test? The Flexible U.S. Job Market in the Great Recession

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to live up to expectations. The level and duration of...

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Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Bryson, Alex - 2006

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...

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R&D, Production Structure, and Productivity Growth in the U.S., Japaneseand German Manufacturing Sectors

Mohnen, Pierre A. - 1984

The paper analyzes the production structure and the demand for inputs in three major industrialized countries, the U.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs (capital and R&D) is derived directly from an...

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Contributions and Determinants of Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1979

This paper is an attempt to assess the contribution of R&D to growth of output in U.S. manufacturing industries. The …-section data for the manufacturing industries. Also, the factors determining the rate of growth of R&D expenditures in the 1958 …, total durable, and total nondurable industries. Potential growth of output is affected because of the slowdown of growth of …

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R&D, Production Structure and Productivity Growth : A Comparison of the US, Japanese and Korean Manufacturing Sectors

Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1996

We estimate and compare the production structures of the US, Japanese, and Korean total manufacturing sectors for the 1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R&D capital with the physical and R&D capital treated as...

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Public R&D Policies and Cost Behavior of the US Manufacturing Industries

Mamuneas, Theofanis P. - 1995

policies in promoting growth of output and privately funded R&D investment in US manufacturing industries. Publicly financed R …

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Estimation of the Depreciation Rate of Physical and R&D Capital in the U.S. Total Manufacturing Sector

Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1993

Numerous studies on production and cost, the sources of productivity and studies on endogenous growth have recognized the pivotal role of the physical capital stock. Also there is a clear recognition by economists and policy makers that knowledge capital approximated by R&D capital is crucial...

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Production, Financial Structure and Productivity Growth in U.S. Manufacturing

Bernstein, Jeffrey I. - 1993

The purpose of this paper is to estimate a model that incorporates the effects of financial decisions on production, profitability, and productivity growth. Asymmetric information generates agency costs of debt and signaling benefits of dividends which then influence production decisions. The...

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The Effects of Public Infrastructure and R&D Capital on the Cost Structure and Performance of U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1991

structure and productivity performance of twelve two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries. The results suggest that there are … significant productive effects from these two types of capital. Their effects on the cost structure vary across industries and … each industry and estimate the 'social' rates of return to these capitals for the industries in their sample …

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