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Outsourcing, offshoring, and productivity measurement in manufacturing
Houseman, Susan N. (contributor) - 2007 - Rev.
I discuss reasons why manufacturing productivity statistics should be interpreted with caution in light of the recent growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U.S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant...
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Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Productivity Measurement in Manufacturing
Houseman, Susan N. - 2008
Because of gaps in existing surveys and methodological problems with the computation of productivity measures, outsourcing and offshoring result in an overstatement of labor productivity and multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing. Although it is impossible to fully characterize the...
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Why are concavity conditions not satisfied in the cost function? The case of Japanese manufacturing firms during the bubble period
Ogawa, Kazuo - 2008
concavity conditions of the cost function. We focus on the 'bubble period' in the 1980s when land was in great demand for … reasons related to both production and speculation, and land prices soared. By estimating the translog cost function with land … constraints and large adjustments of employment. We also demonstrate that elasticities of substitution between land and other …
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Production economy and industry studies
Fujimoto, Takahiro - In: Present and Future of Evolutionary Economics : Japanese …, (pp. 185-208). 2024
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A new approach to testing marginal productivity theory
Biewen, Martin; Weiser, Constantin - 2011
We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginal products. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify production functions and to compare marginal products to factor payments. Our approach is based on a simple equation that directly...
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Deindustrialization from the center perspective : US trade and manufacturing in the last two decades
Rodousakis, Nikolaos; Yajima, Giuliano Toshiro; Soklis, … - 2024
We argue that the US trade and industry sector has experienced several unsustainable sectoral processes, including (i) a fall in the trade balance in machinery and equipment and high-tech (HT) industries, (ii) a rise in import multipliers in machinery and equipment and HT industries, (iii) a...
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(1995). - VIII, 141 S. : graph. Darst., Kt. - Enth. 11 Beitr.
Görmar, Wilfried (agent); Maretzke, Steffen (agent) - 1995
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Estimating Who Benefits from Productivity Growth : Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality
Hornbeck, Richard - 2019
We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...
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Zoned out? : the determinants of manufactured housing rents : evidence from North Carolina
Becker, Charles M.; Rickert, Timothy - In: Journal of housing economics 46 (2019), pp. 1-17
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On the Relationship between R&D and Productivity: a Treatment Effect Analysis
Medda, Giuseppe; Piga, Claudio; Siegel, Donald - 2003
This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship between R&D expenditures and productivity growth. The analysis considers the different contributions of various forms of R&D (product, process, internal, external in collaboration...
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