When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …

Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …

, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …

Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …

correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of …

This paper discusses a portion of our work linking data on the agriculture sector in the United States and Canada. The … purpose of this work is to explore the evolution of gains in agricultural productivity in the two countries during the post …

the productivity growth slowdowns experienced by most industrialized countries during that decade.The contention is that … measured output. Thus conventional productivity measures will be biased downward when such regulations are imposed. In this …" capital and then use this framework to devleop an adjustment to nonparametric measures of productivity growth, purging them of …