Productivity and Structural Change |
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Team |
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Abstract |
Manufacturing industries show differential growth, what means that they grow at different
rates in the long-run. The project tries to establish the persistence of differences across
U.S. manufacturing industries using recently developed unit-root and stationarity tests for panel
data. The finding of persistence of productivity and value added or employment shares above the
mean is interpreted as the result of success-breeds-success processes. Other statistical approaches
used obtain a more detailed picture of these processes are quantile regressions and mobility indices.
The ability of methods of indirect inference to estimate a theoretical model of productivity and
structural change will be investigated. |
Cooperation |
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Funding |
own project |
Workshop |
EMAEE Conference 'The Knowledge-Based Economies: New Challenges in Methodology, Theory and Policy' in Augsburg, April 2003 |
Publications |
Krüger, J.J., Persistence and Mobility in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector: An Investigation of Productivity Dynamics and Structural Change, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, 2002, mimeo. |
Krüger, J.J., On the Dynamics of the U.S. Manufacturing Productivity Distribution, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, 2002, mimeo. |
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