5% of productivity growth. There is a small negative effect of less than half a percent on employment when industries … paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11% of productivity growth during this period …

focus on the control of the voting of agricultural workers by landlords and show that if the employment relationship is …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

productivity and restructuring. Unlike previous studies we are able to account for the heterogeneity across firms in their exposure … by increasing productivity. The RER shock was associated with substantial within-firm productivity gains for net … exporters; gains that seem to have come about partly through technological improvements. The productivity gains also appear to …

unemployment this made sense. A bargaining model approach suggests, however, that this had a harmful impact on productivity growth …

firm performance. Using firm level data on employment, capita, and output, census data on informal employment at the city … labour productivity. We control for different regional and firm characteristics, and we instrument enforcement with the … it is likely to contribute to an improvement in productivity. …

productivity of the industrial sector is indeed the product of about five times 70%. But 0.70 to the power of five is 17%. The … least productive country in the sample, Bangladesh, has a productivity level worth about 2% of that of the richest nations …. From this perspective, industry is not much different from aggregate GDP such as analysed in Cohen and Soto (2004) where a …