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Article: Patterns of advanced technology adoption and manufacturing performance.
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- Business Economics
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Until recently, evidence for the contributions of technology to jobs, productivity, and earnings was based on highly aggregated country- or industry-level data (e.g., see Fagerberg 1994), on relatively small-sample surveys of manufacturing plants or firms, or on anecdotal evidence. However, a large data set collected at the plant level in the 1988 Survey of Manufacturing Technology provides information on how seventeen specific advanced technologies (see Table 1) are used in approximately 10,000 plants in five manufacturing industry groups: fabricated metal products; industrial and commercial machinery and computer equipment; electronic and other electric equipment and ...