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Industry restructuring measures and productivity: evidence from the 1980s
Abstract: This paper analyzes the empirical relationship between corporate restructuring and productivity. We estimate neoclassical production functions and factor demand functions to analyze the importance of restructuring in improving resource allocation and productivity. We find, at most, restructuring may have spurred the substitution of capital for labor in some industries, helping to set the stage for increased labor productivity. However, there is little evidence that restructurings, themselves, aided in the improvement of true technological progress.
Keywords: Industrial productivity; Productivity;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Part of Series: Research Paper
Publication Date: 1995
Number: 9509