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Plant Vintage, Technology, and Environmental Regulation

Gray, Wayne B. - 2001

Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using … annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … include our technology, vintage, and renovation variables. Sample calculations of the impact of pollution abatement on …

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Scientific Education and Innovation : From Technical Diplomas to University STEM Degrees

Bianchi, Nicola - 2019

This paper studies the effects of university STEM education on innovation and labor market outcomes by exploiting a change in enrollment requirements in Italian STEM majors. University-level scientific education had two direct effects on the development of patents by students who had acquired a...

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Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency : Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

Foster, Lucia - 2005

There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved;...

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Transition Dynamics in Vintage Capital Models : Explaining the Postwar Catch-Up of Germany and Japan

Gilchrist, Simon - 2004

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …

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Women and STEM

Kahn, Shulamit - 2017

-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue …

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Macroeconomics of Persistent Slumps

Hall, Robert E. - 2016

In modern economies, sharp increases in unemployment from major adverse shocks result in long periods of abnormal unemployment and low output. This chapter investigates the processes that account for these persistent slumps. The data are from the economy of the United States, and the discussion...

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

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