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Atack, Jeremy - 2008

production. At the same time United States experienced a "transportation revolution", a key component of which was the building …

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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry : Domestic Production and Foreign Competition

Davis, Joseph H. - 2007

This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly … sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …

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Changes in the balance sheet of the U.S. manufacturing sector, 1926-1977

Ciccolo, John H.; Baum, Christopher F. - 1983

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Protecting Their Intellectual Assets : Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)

Cohen, Wesley M. - 2000

Based on a survey questionnaire administered to 1478 R&D labs in the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1994, we find that firms typically protect the profits due to invention with a range of mechanisms, including patents, secrecy, lead time advantages and the use of complementary marketing and...

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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing : The Role of Computer Investment

Dunne, Timothy - 2000

production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. Based on theoretical work by Caselli (1999 …

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Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing

Estevao, Marcello - 1999

Several analysts claim that firms have been using more flexible work arrangements in order to contain the costly adjustment of labor to changes in economic conditions. In particular, temporary help supply (THS) employment has increased dramatically in the last ten years. However, there is only...

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Management and Misallocation in Mexico

Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...

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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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Size, Trade, Technology and the Division of Labor

Limão, Nuno; Xu, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

gain 1.4 times higher than under exogenous specialization; (ii) increases in the intermediate share in production and trade …

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Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing : Evidence from Certification Elections

Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Johnson, Matthew S.; Tadjfar, Nagisa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We assess whether and why trade competition partly explains the sharp decline in U.S. workers' attempts to organize labor unions in recent decades. We find that between 1990-2007, import competition due to the "China Shock" lowered union certification elections by 4.5% among workers in...

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