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policy outcomes. Surprisingly, past studies have found mixed evidence that various labor market and industry attributes of …
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There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry … fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved; thus within-industry price differences are embodied in …
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Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from artisan shop to factory … building of extensive railroad network. Using a newly created data set of manufacturing establishments linked to county level … data on rail access from 1850-70, we ask whether the coming of the railroad increased establishment size in manufacturing …
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1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly …
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-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …
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We develop a large customer-level database to study electricity pricing to U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 2000 … smaller manufacturing customers by 10% or more. In contrast to a clear role for cost factors, our evidence provides no support …
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. Gollop and D. Jorgenson for U.S. manufacturing industries for the years 1948-1973. This is the first empirical work in … 21-industry system which has a high degree of explanatory power: The system's weighted-R2 is 0.9675 and all coefficients … given industry of the model is probably new, it is easily characterized within the Lie group structure and the system …
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manufacturing sector, disaggregated by industry sector and by production and non-production workers. In this paper we examine the … impact of exchange rate movements on manufacturing employment, disaggregated geographically, using census divisions, regions … estimate that movements in the real exchange rate led to the loss of about 1 million manufacturing jobs over this period. We go …
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This paper is an attempt to assess the contribution of Ramp;D to growth of output in U.S. manufacturing industries. The …-section data for the manufacturing industries. Also, the factors determining the rate of growth of Ramp;D expenditures in the 1958 … manufacturing, total durable, and total nondurable industries. Potential growth of output is affected because of the slowdown of …
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Using data from a variety of sources, this paper comprehensively documents the dramatic changes in the manufacturing …-region variation to explore the link between declining manufacturing employment and labor market outcomes. We find that manufacturing … wages. We also show that declining local manufacturing employment is related to rising local opioid use and deaths. These …
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