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The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing

Mankiw, N. Gregory; Swagel, Phillip - American Enterprise Institute - 2009

We examineways in which economists can communicate more effectively to policymakers and the broader public about offshoring and international trade.

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U.S. International Trade Regulation

III, William H. Lash - American Enterprise Institute

Carefully researched and comprehensive--a masterful road map to U.S. trade policy and trade law.

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The Impact of Vintage and Survival on Productivity: Evidence from Cohorts of U.S. Manufacturing Plants

Jensen, J. Bradford; McGuckin, Robert H; Stiroh, Kevin J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000

This paper examines the evolution of productivity in U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 1992. We define a “vintage effect” as the change in productivity of recent cohorts of new plants relative to earlier cohorts of new plants, and a “survival effect” as the change in productivity of...

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Evidence on IO Technology Assumptions From the Longitudinal Research Database

Mattey, Joe - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993

This paper investigates whether a popular IO technology assumption, the commodity technology model, is appropriate for specific United States manufacturing industries, using data on product composition and use of intermediates by individual plants from the Census Longitudinal Research Database....

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IT Spending and Firm Productivity: Additional Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Stolarick, Kevin M - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1999

The information systems (IS) "productivity paradox" is based on those studies that found little or no positive … relationship between firm productivity and spending on IS. However, some earlier studies and one more recent study have found a … conflicting conclusions reached by these earlier studies. Data collected by the Bureau of the Census is analyzed to investigate …

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Academic Science, Industrial R&D, and the Growth of Inputs

Adams, James D; Sveikauskas, Leo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993

science, R&D, and factor markets suggested by these studies. In our theory lagged science increases the returns to R&D, so … capital. Studies of high technology industries and recent labor studies agree in assigning a large role to science and … of events that is a crucial feature of our model, first from science to R&D, and later to output and factor markets. …

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Exiting Self-Employment: An Analysis of Asian Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses

Bates, Timothy - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1998

Part of the uniqueness of the immigrant Asian business community in the U.S. lies in the fact that many among the highly educated pursue self-employment in small-scale, low-yielding retail and personal service fields. This study analyzes owner departure for a nationwide sample of small...

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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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Measuring Productivity Dynamics with Endogenous Choice of Technology and Capacity Utilization: An Application to Automobile Assembly

Biesebroeck, Johannes Van - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000

During the 1980s, all Japanese automobile producers opened assembly plants in North America. Industry analysts and previous research claim that these transplants are more productive than incumbent plants and that they produce with a substantially different production process. We compare the two...

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Endogenous Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities

Acs, Zoltan J; Armington, Catherine - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

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

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