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 …

studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … accumulated professional managing experience raise the productivity of talented players by more than that of less-talented players …

data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government innovation …

with HPWPs are more likely to make frequent suggestions for productivity increase and quality improvement. As such, this …