endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …

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 …

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …

. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of … with frictions lowering aggregate management quality and productivity …

income on services. Productivity tends to grow less rapidly in the Service sector than in the rest of the economy, but the … shift of employment to Services was not a major factor in the slowing of aggregate productivity in the United States in the …

dollars remained relatively constant. Productivity (as measured in the National Income Accounts) continued to grow less … decrease in productivity growth. Real CDP grew almost as rapidly as in 1948-65, while employment growth accelerated due to a … not a significant factor in either the acceleration of employment or the slowdown of productivity growth in 1961-76. The …