allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study … economic growth in the 1980s. Our empirical results indicate that productivity was significantly enhanced by the recent …

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 …

, to economically and statistically significant declines in domestic output and productivity. Tariff increases also result …. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …

impact of raising aggregate productivity. These results suggest that the dispersion of entrepreneurial abilities is small in …

firms and reductions in earnings per worker. Productivity gains arise mainly from an accelerated exit of less productive …

percent of the employment growth effect of college graduates is due to enhanced productivity growth, the rest being caused by … in urban areas solely through changes in productivity …

This paper studies the employment, productivity and welfare implications of new Chinese labor regulations intended to …

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 …