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Water Use and Conservation in Manufacturing : Evidence from U.S. Microdata
Becker, Randy A. - 2016
Water can be a scarce resource, particularly in certain places at certain times. Understanding both water use and conservation efforts can help ensure that limited supplies can meet the demands of a growing population and economy. This paper examines water use and recirculation in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987230
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Plant Exit and U.S. Imports from Low-Wage Countries
Cooke, Abigail - 2016
Over the past twenty years, imports to the U.S. from low-wage countries have increased dramatically. In this paper we examine how low-wage country import competition in the U.S. influences the probability of manufacturing establishment closure. Confidential data from the U.S. Bureau of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001545
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Water Use and Conservation in Manufacturing : Evidence from U.S. Microdata
Becker, Randy A. - 2015
Water can be a scarce resource, particularly in certain places at certain times. Understanding both water use and conservation efforts can help ensure that limited supplies can meet the demands of a growing population and economy. This paper examines water use and recirculation in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134898
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The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Allocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth
Petrin, Amil - 2009
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. We decompose these contributions into plant-level resource reallocations and plant-level technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152982
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing and when? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides which ones to organize and when. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057220
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Measuring U.S. Innovative Activity
Atrostic, B. K. - 2012
Innovation has long been credited as a leading source of economic strength and vitality inthe United States because it … innovative activities - activities including but not limited to innovation alone - could improve what we know about the sources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012712957
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Non-Technological and Mixed Modes of Innovation in the United States : Evidence from the Business Research and Development Innovation Survey, 2008-2011
Sanchez, Juana - 2015
This paper presents a novel empirical study of innovation practices of U.S. companies and their relation to … productivity levels using new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for the … years 2008-2011. We use factor analysis to reduce a set of inputs and outputs of innovation activities into four latent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027467