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Outstanding outsourcers: a firm- and plant-level analysis of production sharing

Kurz, Christopher Johann - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2006

on productivity. The measure of outsourcing comes from a question in the 1987 and 1992 Census of Manufactures regarding …

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Productivity dynamics: U.S. manufacturing plants, 1972-1986

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dhrymes, Phoebus J. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1994

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Patterns of plant adjustment

Sakellaris, Plutarchos - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2001

This paper provides a description of the dynamic choices of manufacturing plants when they undertake rapid adjustment in output. The focus is on episodes that involve lumpy adjustment in capital or employment. I examine the behavior of variables such as capital utilization, hours per worker,...

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Production function estimation with industry capacity data

Sakellaris, Plutarchos - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2001

This paper introduces a new data set for the analysis of productivity in U.S. manufacturing. It consists of data on production and input levels when the plants in an industry operate at capacity. The estimates are consistent with those obtained using data on actual operations from the ASM. As an...

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Do firms share their success with workers? The response of wages to product market conditions

Estevao, Marcello; Tevlin, Stacey - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2000

We provide strong new evidence that industry financial conditions play an important role in wage determination in the U.S. manufacturing sector. Ordinary least squares estimates of the effect of rents per worker on wages are positive and significant, but quite small. However, using two standard...

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Measuring temporary labor outsourcing in U.S. manufacturing

Estevao, Marcello; Lach, Saul - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1999

Several analysts claim that firms have been using more flexible work arrangements in order to contain the costly adjustment of labor to changes in economic conditions. In particular, temporary help supply (THS) employment has increased dramatically in the last ten years. However, there is only...

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Monetary policy, business cycles and the behavior of small manufacturing firms

Gertler, Mark; Gilchrist, Simon - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1993

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Commercial banks and real estate lending: the Texas experience

Eisenbeis, Robert A.; Horvitz, Paul M.; Cole, Rebel A. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1996

This study analyzes the performance of Texas commercial banks specializing in mortgage lending during the late 1980s … concentrating in real estate lending. The results show that Texas real estate banks (REBs) performed very poorly during the 1980s … and early 1990s, but this was because the Texas REBs were clearly different from the majority of the banks classified as …

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