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Macro Effects of Corporate Restructuring in Japan
Kim, Se-Jik - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper presents a framework for quantitatively evaluating the macroeconomic effects of corporate restructuring and applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248188
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Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries; Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility
Saito, Mika - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825862
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Do Technology Shocks Lead to Productivity Slowdowns? Evidence From Patent Data
Christiansen, Lone Engbo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The … analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily fall below trend after technological progress. However, the effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768749
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Service offshoring, Productivity, and Employment; Evidence From the United States
Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768861
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How Has the Globalization of Labor Affected the Labor Income Share in Advanced Countries?
Jaumotte, Florence; Tytell, Irina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China … rapid technological progress. At the same time, the share of labor in national income decreased in most advanced countries …. This paper uses a labor share equation derived from a translog revenue function to estimate the contributions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768889
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Allocating Business Income between Capital and Labor under a Dual Income Tax; The Case of Iceland
Matheson, Thornton; Kollbeins, Pall - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.  This paper … shift would also raise the tax burden of skilled labor-intensive industries more than it would that of capital …
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