Workshops on technological change in the U.S. automobile industry October 1977 through April 1978 and the symposium on technology, government and the automotive future, October 19-20, 1978. Proceedings. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

Technological change and its impact on labor in four industries : coal mining/pharmaceutical preparations, metalworking machinery/eating and drinking places /

"October 1992."

Technological change and its labor impact in four industries : hosiery/folding paperboard boxes/metal cans/laundry and cleaning.

"February 1984."

Technological change and its labor impact in four industries : contract construction, railroad transportation, air transportation, petroleum pipeline transportation.

"December 1988".

The Impact of technological change in the meatpacking industry /

March 1966.

Survey of economic theory on technological change & employment.

Mode of access: Internet.

Unemployment and technological change,

Mode of access: Internet.

Retraining to adapt to technological change /

Mode of access: Internet.

Technological change and employment in Western Europe /

"July 1985."

The adaptability of older workers to technological change; performance of older and younger workers in industrial retraining courses

"Organizational Behavior and Change Programs, February, 1961."

Adoption of new ideas and practices; a summary of the research dealing with the acceptance of technological change in agriculture, with implications for action in facilitating such change.

Includes index.

Productivity and job security : retraining to adapt to technological change /

Mode of access: Internet.

The impact of procurement-driven technological change on U.S. manufacturing productivity growth

As we enter the 21st Century, technologies originally developed for defense purposes such as computers and satellite communications appear to have become a driving force behind economic growth in the United States. Paradoxically, almost all previous econometric models suggest that the largely defense-oriented federal industrial R&D funding that helped create these technologies had no discernible effect on U.S. industrial productivity growth. This paper addresses this paradox by stressing that defense procurement as well as federal R&D expenditures were targeted to a few narrowly defined manufacturing sub-sectors that produced high tech weaponry. Analysis employing data from the NBER Manufacturing Productivity Database and the BEA' s Input Output tables then demonstrates that defense procurement policies did have significant effects on the productivity performance of disaggregated manufacturing industries because of a process of procurement-driven technological change.