IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/restat/v76y1994i4p721-27.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Does Import Competition Force Efficient Production?

Author

Listed:
  • MacDonald, James M

Abstract

Increases in import competition led to large increases in labor productivity growth in highly concentrated industries during the period from 1975 through 1987. The finding is based on a panel of ninety-four manufacturing industries observed over four periods, each of three years duration. Imports had no observable effects on productivity growth in less concentrated industries; the strong effects in concentrated industries did not occur contemporaneously but appeared with a one-period lag. The effects are weakened but still statistically significant when Bureau of Labor Statistics productivity data are replaced by National Bureau of Economic Research data and in a larger panel with less precise trade data. Copyright 1994 by MIT Press.

Suggested Citation

  • MacDonald, James M, 1994. "Does Import Competition Force Efficient Production?," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 76(4), pages 721-727, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:76:y:1994:i:4:p:721-27
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-6535%28199411%2976%3A4%3C721%3ADICFEP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23&origin=bc
    File Function: full text
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to JSTOR subscribers. See http://www.jstor.org for details.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:76:y:1994:i:4:p:721-27. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kelly McDougall (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://direct.mit.edu/journals .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.