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Trade, Technology, and Plant Performance

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J. Bradford Jensen (Bureau of the Census,Economics, Statistics Administration,Department of Commerce)
Nathan Musick (Office of Policy Development,Economics and Statistics Administration,Department of Commerce)

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Previous research shows that both exporting and the use of advanced technologies independently enhance the performance of U.S. manufacturing plants in a variety of ways. The research presented below shows that plants that both export and use advanced technology outperform other plants in a number of important ways: they increase their employment more rapidly, they pay higher wages, and they are less likely to fail. The research also shows that manufacturing plants that use advanced technologies are more likely to export.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Industrial Organization with number 9603004.

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Date of creation: 12 Mar 1996
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Keywords: trade technology employment productivity wages and salaries;

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Find related papers by JEL classification:
D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General
L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General
O30 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - General

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  1. Dunne, Timothy & Schmitz, James A, Jr, 1995. "Wages, Employment Structure and Employer Size-Wage Premia: Their Relationship to Advanced-Technology Usage at US Manufacturing Establishments," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 62(245), pages 89-107, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Doms, Mark & Dunne, Timothy & Troske, Kenneth R, 1997. "Workers, Wages, and Technology," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 112(1), pages 253-90, February.
  3. Doms, Mark & Dunne, Timothy & Roberts, Mark J., 1995. "The role of technology use in the survival and growth of manufacturing plants," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 13(4), pages 523-542, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Robert H Mcguckin & Mary L Streitwieser & Mark E Doms, 1996. "The Effect Of Technology Use On Productivity Growth," Working Papers 96-2, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Catherine L. Mann, 1997. "Globalization and productivity in the United States and Germany," International Finance Discussion Papers 595, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). [Downloadable!]
  2. Nathan Musick, 1998. "Heroic Plants: Persistently Rapid Job Creators in the Longitudinal Research Database - Their Distinguishing Characteristics and Contribution to Employment Growth," Industrial Organization 9811001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  3. Wagner, Joachim, 2005. "Exports and Productivity: A Survey of the Evidence from Firm Level Data," Discussion Paper Series 26308, Hamburg Institute of International Economics. [Downloadable!]
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