We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance … domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and productivity. Consistent with heterogenous firm models where … productivity measures for offshoring firms. These results are consistent across two separate difference-in-differences (DID …

While information technologies (IT) are credited with the recent acceleration in productivity in the United States …, many other industrial countries have not experienced a pickup in productivity growth. To explain this productivity … and slowed productivity growth in a number of industrial countries. We then develop a theoretical model with vintage …

Productivity growth in the U.S. economy jumped during the second half of the 1990s, a resurgence that many analysts …, leading to a lively debate about the connection between IT and productivity and about the sustainability of the faster growth … acceleration in labor productivity after 1995 was driven largely by the greater use of IT capital goods and by the more rapid …

environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes …We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an … pairwise interregional trade across all 50 U.S. states, 26 traded and non-traded industries, labor as a mobile factor, and …