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A Comparison of Job Creation and Job Destruction in Canada and the United States

Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John; Baldwin, John - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1994

In recent years a growing number of countries have constructed data series on job creation and job destruction using establishment-level data sets. This paper provides a description and detailed comparison of these new data series for the United States and Canada. First, the Canadian and United...

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Aggregate Productivity Growth: Lessons From Microeconomic Evidence

Haltiwanger, John; Krizan, C J; Foster, Lucia - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1998

In this study we focus on the role of the reallocation of activity across individual producers for aggregate productivity growth. A growing body of empirical analysis yields striking patterns in the behavior of establishment-level reallocation and productivity. Nevertheless, a review of existing...

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

Dunne, Timothy; Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John; … - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000

By exploiting establishment-level data for U.S. manufacturing, this paper sheds new light on the source of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. Based on recent theoretical work by Caselli (1999) and Kremer and Maskin...

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Productivity, Investment in ICT and Market Experimentation: Micro Evidence from Germany and the U.S.

Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

young US businesses and there is greater experimentation among those actively changing their technology. This … Internet access for workers. We also find that the mean impact of adopting new technology is greater in U.S. than in Germany … technology. …

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Pollution Abatement Costs, Regulation And Plant-Level Productivity

Gray, Wayne B; Shadbegian, Ronald J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1994

We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental regulation for plants in three industries (paper, oil, and steel). We examine data from 1979 to 1990, considering both total factor productivity levels and growth rates. Plants...

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Plant Vintage, Technology, and Environmental Regulation

Gray, Wayne B; Shadbegian, Ronald J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 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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Environmental Regulation And Manufacturing Productivity At The Plant Level

Gray, Wayne B; Shadbegian, Ronald J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993

steel). We combine productivity data from the Longitudinal Research Database ( LRD ) with pollution abatement expenditures …

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THE AGGREGATE IMPLICATIONS OF MACHINE REPLACEMENT: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

Haltiwanger, John; Cooper, Russell - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1992

This paper studies an economy in which producers incur resource costs to replace depreciated machines. The process of costly replacement and depreciation creates endogenous fluctuations in productivity, employment and output of a single producer. We also explore the spillover effects of machine...

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When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?

Shadbegian, Ronald J; Gray, Wayne B - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001

This paper examines whether a firm's allocation of production across its plants responds to the environmental regulation faced by those plants, as measured by differences in stringency across states. We also test whether sensitivity to regulation differs based on differences across firms in...

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Environmental Regulation, Investment Timing, and Technology Choice

Gray, Wayne B; Shadbegian, Ronald J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1997

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