Producer Dynamics

Producer Dynamics
Author: Timothy Dunne
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226172570

The Census Bureau has recently begun releasing official statistics that measure the movements of firms in and out of business and workers in and out of jobs. The economic analyses in Producer Dynamics exploit this newly available data on establishments, firms, and workers, to address issues in industrial organization, labor, growth, macroeconomics, and international trade. This innovative volume brings together a group of renowned economists to probe topics such as firm dynamics across countries; patterns of employment dynamics; firm dynamics in nonmanufacturing industries such as retail, health services, and agriculture; employer-employee turnover from matched worker/firm data sets; and turnover in international markets. Producer Dynamics will serve as an invaluable reference to economists and policy makers seeking to understand the links between firms and workers, and the sources of economic dynamics, in the age of globalization.

Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations
Author: Ufuk Akcigit
Publisher:
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

We study how external versus internal innovations promote economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework with multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in external R&D to acquire new product lines and in internal R&D to improve their existing product lines. A baseline model derives the theoretical implications of weaker scaling for external R&D versus internal R&D, and the resulting predictions align with observed empirical regularities for innovative firms. Quantifying a generalized model for the recent U.S. economy using matched Census Bureau and patent data, we observe a modest departure for external R&D from perfect scaling frameworks.

Mini-guide to the 1972 Economic Censuses

Mini-guide to the 1972 Economic Censuses
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1973
Genre: Economic surveys
ISBN:

Information pamphlet on the scope and coverage of the 1972 economic censuses in the USA - summarizes the research methodology and data collecting criteria, presents an overview of the major individual censuses of commerce, transport, selected industrial census, etc., and includes information on obtaining the data. Flow chart and maps.