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Table 13 Production functions, three-digit industries

From: Do high-skill immigrants raise productivity? Evidence from Israeli manufacturing firms, 1990-1999

 

Dependent variable: log output per worker

 

Pooled OLS

Fixed Effects

Fixed Effects, IV (Instrument: predicted immigrant share)

Share immigrants

-0.284** (0.086)

-0.028 (.040)

0.216 (.554)

0.052 (.173)

-0.004 (.308)

Log capital per worker

0.100** (.021)

0.007 (.013)

0.001 (.015)

0.005 (0.014)

0.006 (.013)

Log materials per worker

0.782** (.022)

0.797** (.025)

0.806** (.030)

0.801** (.024)

0.797** (.026)

Log employment

0.021 (.014)

-0.035** (.015)

-0.037** (.017)

-0.041** (.018)

-0.045** (.018)

Time controls

Year dummies

Year dummies

Year dummies

Two time periods

Linear time trend

N

760

760

760

760

760

R2

0.960

0.938

0.875

0.882

0.882

First stage F- statistic

-

-

5.014

17.05

10.79

Implied production function parameters

α

0.100** (.021)

0.007 (.013)

0.001 (.015)

0.005 (0.014)

0.006 (.013)

β

0.782** (.022)

0.797** (.025)

0.806** (.030)

0.801** (.024)

0.797** (.026)

γ

0.139** (.019)

0.162** (.021)

0.156** (.026)

0.153** (.021)

0.153** (.026)

μ

-2.047** (.695)

-0.173 (.246)

1.390 (3.680)

0.339 (1.144)

-0.025 (2.012)