We build up from the plant level an “aggregate(d)” Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant's contribution to the change in aggregate final demand between 1976 and 1996. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2010) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which...

This study employs a national survey of over 3000 U.S. manufacturing establishments to explore associations between worker skill requirements and use of production and telecommunications technologies, work organization, and other management practices. Ordered probit equations show an empirical...

Despite the growth in services. manufacturing remains an essential part of the nonmetropolitan South's economy, responsible for 25 percent of total personal earnings. But loweducation nonmetropolitan areas, which gained more than their share of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, lost...