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I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers in US cities by estimating plant level production functions. I use a unique firm-worker matched dataset, obtained by combining the Census of Manufacturers with the Census of Population. After controlling for a plant’s own human capital, plant...
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This paper studies interplant sex segregation in the U.S. manufacturing industry. The study differs from previous work in that we have detailed information on the characteristics of both workers and firms, and because we measure segregation in a new and better way. We report three main findings....
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implications of an endowment-based Heckscher-Ohlin trade model for plant entry and exit are tested on 20 years of data for the …
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This paper presents results from an investigation of the effects of manufacturing extension on the productivity dynamics of client plants. Previous econometric studies of manufacturing extension had very little time series information. This limited what researchers could say about the relative...
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and economic growth. The predictions of these models depend on the distribution of learning abilities and knowledge flows … plant level data on a sample of entrants in SIC 38, Instruments, to examine the characteristics associated with both … proprietary and spillover learning by doing. The plant level data permit tests for the relative importance of within and between …
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of data to satisfy multiple objectives--if it is to satisfy users is universally accepted. Yet in practice, this goal has … multiple uses of the industrial data now primarily examined within the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. In one … sense, the question of feasibility is almost trivial. With today's computer technology, vast amounts of data can be …
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This paper examines the relationship between productivity, investment, and age for over 14,000 plants in the U.S. manufacturing sector in the 1972-1988 period. Productivity patterns vary significantly due to plant heterogeneity. Productivity first increases and then decreases with respect to...
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In this paper we investigate the role of input-output data source in the regional econometric input-output models … analysis focusing on a model developed for the Chicago Region. We experimented with three input-output data sources: observed … regional data, national input-output, and randomly generated input-output coefficients. The effects of different sources of …
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In this paper, we argue at a general level, that recent economic models of capacity and of its utilization are …
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previous research on interfirm segregation has studied only large firms and because it is easier to link the demographic …
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