This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11 percent of productivity growth … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …

This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection for regular workers and how it … the responses of sectoral employment to large job protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the …

components of growth suggests that the adverse effect largely reflects a slowdown in labor productivity growth mainly due to …

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and … total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production of IT equipment. The main outstanding issue is whether IT is …

This paper investigates the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth. A panel analysis of 20 OECD countries … finds that the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth may be weak or negative in the short run, possibly due to … run, however, structural reforms are found to have significantly positive effects on productivity growth …

This paper investigates the role played by total factor productivity (TFP) in the tradable and nontradable sectors of …