studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring … percentage points for services and 0.48 to 0.64 for materials. -- offshoring ; Japan ; employment ; productivity …

quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of … firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using …

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry …-specific. -- Productivity ; workplace practices ; linked employer-employee data ; information technologies …

This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall … have no effect for U.S. females or in Canada. Government expenditures on research and development enhanced PhD production …, especially for males and in the physical sciences in the U.S. A higher rate of growth of non-farm productivity encouraged PhD …

The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel … productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and whether this relationship is affected by various contextual factors … adoption of a profit sharing program and subsequent productivity growth in both panels, but only among establishments that …

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

In this paper, we use linked employer-employee administrative tax data from Canada to estimate the impact of payroll … in the payroll tax rate to estimate its impact on the firm's level of employment, average wage and productivity, with … employment, productivity and profits, but significant impacts on wages, implying that payroll taxes are passed almost entirely to …