respect to intermediate import prices to theory uncovers evidence of a production complementarity between workers and … the findings add to widely expressed, growing concerns about poor productivity performance relating to skills and to …

. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition …

offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … activity becomes stronger. In such a case, it is possible for this effect to offset the positive productivity effect, and …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth … or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such … and used these inputs to estimate the short-run and long-run relationship between labor market flows, labor productivity …

theory of contract. Finally, the empirical literature on employment and labor law is reviewed. I conclude that many aspects … of employment law are consistent with the economic theory of contract - namely, that contracts are written and enforced … contrast, empirical labor market research focuses upon ex post match efficiency in the face of an exogenous productivity shock …