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Thriving in a Global Economy : The Truth About U.S. Manufacturing and Trade

Ikenson, Daniel J. - 2007

Reports of the death of U.S. manufacturing have been greatly exaggerated. Since the depth of the manufacturing recession in 2002, the sector as a whole has experienced robust and sustained output, revenue, and profit growth. The year 2006 was a record year for output, revenues, profits, profit...

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Reform Options for the Estate Tax System : Targeting Unearned Income, Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance

Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010

This testimony makes three main points. First, inheritances tend to exacerbate existing economic disparities and may be the most important barrier to intergenerational economic mobility. These tendencies are most pronounced at the top of the income distribution. While inherited income is...

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Local communities in front of big external investors : an opportunity or a risk?

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2010

exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide … the two typologies of actors. -- Foreign Direct Investments ; Environmental Negative Externalities ; Structural Changes …

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Group selection : the quest for social preferences

Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009

formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite ; externalities ; conformity ; fixation ; signalling …

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Externalities and subsidization of higher education : conference paper

Winter, Stefan; Pfitztner, Alexander - 2013

positive externalities. Without subsidization, so the story reads, there would be an underinvestment in higher education. This … paper shortly reviews theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence on externalities. It is found that evidence on … positive externalities is quite limited. What is more, evidence on negative externalities of higher education has been mainly …

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Contracting Externalities and Mandatory Menus in the U.S. Corporate Bankruptcy Code

Bernardo, Antonio E. - 2015

distress ex-post. If fire-sale liquidation imposes negative externalities on their peers, then firms can be collectively better …

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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books

Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016

from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …

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Exchange Rate Cycles and Canada/US Manufacturing Prices

Baldwin, John R.; Yan, Beiling - 2009

The paper examines the industry characteristics that are related to the shifts in competitiveness, measured as the …

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The Collapse of Labor Productivity Growth in U.S. Manufacturing after 2010

Schmalensee, Richard - 2018

Real value-added per employee in U.S. manufacturing fell between 2010 and 2016. Manufacturing accounted for over half the drop in private economy productivity growth between 1990-2000 and 2010-2016, though it accounted for less than 20% of aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in...

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Public Firm Presence, Financial Reporting, and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing

Glaeser, Stephen; Omartian, James D. - 2021

We examine the relation between public firm presence and import competition. The information created by public firm presence may provide importers with insights they can use for competing with domestic firms. Consistent with this possibility, we document a positive relation between public firm...

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