“survival effect” as the change in productivity of a particular cohort of surviving plants as it ages. The data show that both …

specific United States manufacturing industries, using data on product composition and use of intermediates by individual …, owing to the implication of aggregate data that negative inputs are required to make particular goods. The plant-level data … explored here suggest that much of the rejection of the commodity technology model from aggregative data was spurious …

conflicting conclusions reached by these earlier studies. Data collected by the Bureau of the Census is analyzed to investigate … explained by understanding the characteristics of the data analyzed in each study. A large enough sample size is needed to find … relationship between productivity and IS spending varies across industries, industry mix is shown to be an important data …

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 States industry-level job creation and destruction data are remarkably …

Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the …

out this investigation of within firm R&D effects using a unique set of Census data. The data, which are from the … chemicals industry, are a match of plant level productivity and other characteristics with firm level data on R&D of the parent …