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Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants

Zhang, Peng; Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C.; Zhang, … - 2017

This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to … manufacturing sector produces 32% of national GDP and supplies 12% of global exports. …

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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Utar, Hale - 2022

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...

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Can Meaning Make Cents? Making the Meaning of Work Salient for US Manufacturing Workers

Salamone, Alberto; Lordan, Grace - 2022

We conducted a field experiment in a small electronics manufacturing firm in the US with the specific aim to improve …

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Manufacturing Employment and Women's Agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014

Grogan, Louise - 2022

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within …

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Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...

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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach

Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - 2003

nonneutral technical change between production and nonproduction labor in U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1959-1996 period …

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The skill bias effect of technological and organisational change : evidence and policy implications

Piva, Mariacristina; Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - 2003

(increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last … model for a sample of 400 Italian manufacturing firms, showing that upskilling is more a function of the reorganisational …

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The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms' Production Factor Decisions

Heshmati, Almas; Haouas, Ilham - 2003

capital operating time. We suggest the use of a panel data approach applied to manufacturing data. A dynamic model is …

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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...

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Wage inequality and job insecurity among permanent and contract workers in India: evidence from organized manufacturing industries

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2006

Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone …. The study uses data at the individual level from a recent labour survey of organised manufacturing industries in India …

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