Publisher's Synopsis
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity contains the articles, reports, and highlights of the discussions from conferences of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity. Contents: Old Dogs and New Tricks: Determinants of the Adoption of Productivity-Enhancing Work Practices, Casey Ichniowski and Kathryn Shaw Exporters, Jobs, and Wages in U.S. Manufacturing: 1976-1987, Andrew B. Bernard and J. Bradford Jensen Participation and Productivity: A Comparision of Worker Cooperatives and Convention Firms in the Plywood Industry, Ben Craig and John Pencave The Information-Integrated Channel: A Study of the U.S. Apparel Industry in Transition, Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond and David Weil A Bayesian Learning Model Fitted to a Variety of Empirical Learning Curves, Boyan Jovanovic and Yaw Nyarko Efficiency in Manufacturing and the Need for Global Competition, Martin Neil Baily and Hans Gersbach.
