First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … 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 …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is …

-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 … rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …

capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion of new technology and its regional spread; and market reforms, with a major … accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of … infrastructure capital on regional inequality. We conclude that investing in human capital will be an effective policy to reduce …

In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to …

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is …

In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to …