productivity. We maintain, however, that the dramatic acceleration of imports from developing countries has imparted a significant … manufacturing productivity and value added, we implement the bias correction developed by Diewert and Nakamura (2009) to the input … offshoring. We find that from 1997 to 2007 average annual multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing was overstated by 0 …

This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … produces a productivity advantage of about 40 percent in 2004-2005. …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism, but they rise dramatically after reforms, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the …

professional employer organizations-on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major … manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services significantly inflated manufacturing labor productivity measures, accounting for 0 ….5 percentage points of the annual growth rate from 1989 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2004. Although multifactor productivity measures …

I discuss reasons why manufacturing productivity statistics should be interpreted with caution in light of the recent … productivity statistics. Second, companies often outsource or offshore work to take advantage of cheap (relative to their output …) labor, and such cost savings are counted as productivity gains, even in multifactor productivity calculations. This fact has …

the 1980s, Ukrainian job reallocation in the 1990s was clearly productivity-enhancing, both within and across industries … to which it has contributed to aggregate productivity growth. …

growth has largely kept pace with private sector real output growth, that productivity growth has been much higher, and that … result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however …, the apparently robust growth in manufacturing real output and productivity have been driven by a relatively small industry …

: computers and electronic products. In most of manufacturing, real GDP growth has been weak or negative and productivity growth … that, when adjusted for product quality improvements, are falling rapidly. Productivity growth in these industries, in turn …