productivity (TFP) on the equilibrium relative wage of low-skilled workers in eleven high-income countries. The key finding is that …

question whether this has led to productivity gains within firms. I address this question by combining industry-level data on … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

exposed and vulnerable to the health and productivity losses associated with a degraded environment. Given that developing …

's productivity growth depends upon its distance from the world's technological leader. One motivating contemporary example includes …

Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of … schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD … countries the price of schooling has increased faster in 1970-94 than would be compatible with constant schooling productivity …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …