have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This … paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of …

This study estimates the labor force participation rate (LFPR) of older males in Korea from 1955 to 2005, and analyzes … males in Korea between 1965 and 1995 is largely explained by the dramatic increase in the labor-market activity of the rural …

We study how the rise of trade in services with China and India has impacted U.S. labour markets. The topic has two …

trade in services - especially trade in intermediate services. Barriers are radically higher and falling radically faster … for services versus goods, and, unlike farm and factory goods, there is no capacity constraint when it comes to the export … of intermediate services from emerging markets. Undertaking the macroeconomic analysis for services trade that was done …

-level productivity evolution and the equilibrium market configuration. A counterfactual experiment reveals that a 15% R&D subsidy …

productivity of the targeted industries and regions grew significantly faster than those of non-targeted ones. While the plant …-level total factor productivity also grew faster in targeted industries and regions, the misallocation of resources within them … got significantly worse, especially among the entrants, so that the total factor productivity at the industry-region level …