This study makes us of the OECD Structural Analysis industrial database (STAN) to investigate patterns of industry specialization as measured by the country's share of total industry production for 14 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 1993. I find that these industrialized countries tended...

This paper uses data form the U.S. Decennial Censuses of 1950 through 1990 to measure the growth of information workers in the U.S. economy and analyse the sources of their growth.

This paper formulates a multiproduct structural model to examine the evolution of structure of production and demand and the dynamic interaction between the two in the context of the U.S. telecommunications industry over an extended period, from 1935 to 1987.

In this paper we (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the seven largest industrialized countries (G-7); (2) analyze the effect of spillovers on the structure of production , i.e. the effects on factor dema d such as labor and investment...

Using U.S. input-output data for the period 1958 to 1987, I find strong evidence that industry TFP growth is significantly related to the TFP performance of sypplying sectors, with an elasticity of almost 60 percent.

In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the U.S. computer industry from 1978 to 1999. We estimate a joint production model of output quantity and quality that distinguishes two types of technological changes: process and product innovations. Based on the estimation...

Whereas difficulties in measuring the output of service sectors have been well documented, input measures are reasonably accurate. Using U.S. input-output data for the period 1958-87 and a number of indices of skill and occupational change derived from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and...

We model research as a signal on an unknown parameter of a technology.

In attempts to overcome the problem of omitted variables, the assumption of fixed effects is widely implemented when working with panel data. This paper examines the validity of this technique, in the context of estimating a production function using panels of US textile plants. The hypothesis...

This paper examines the many equlibria that arises in a family of linear models in which the production parameters vary among models.