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Manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services
Dey, Matthew (contributor); Houseman, Susan N. (contributor) - 2006
manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services significantly inflated manufacturing labor productivity measures, accounting for 0 … should adjust for such outsourcing, available evidence suggests that KLEMS, the multifactor productivity measure for … manufacturing, does not fully capture the relatively large effects that outsourcing to staffing services has on manufacturing …
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Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Employment Services
Dey, Matthew; Houseman, Susan N.; Polivka, Anne Elise - 2008
manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services significantly inflated manufacturing labor productivity measures, accounting for 0 … should adjust for such outsourcing, available evidence suggests that KLEMS, the multifactor productivity measure for … manufacturing, does not fully capture the relatively large effects that outsourcing to staffing services has on manufacturing …
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Outsourcing, offshoring, and productivity measurement in manufacturing
Houseman, Susan N. (contributor) - 2007 - Rev.
growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured …
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Manufacturers' outsourcing to staffing services
Dey, Matthew S.; Houseman, Susan N.; Polivka, Anne E. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 65 (2012) 3, pp. 533-559
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Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Productivity Measurement in Manufacturing
Houseman, Susan N. - 2008
, outsourcing and offshoring result in an overstatement of labor productivity and multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing … - outsourcing and offshoring - depress wages. The effects of outsourcing and offshoring on manufacturing and aggregate productivity …
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Impact of Globalization on Productivity of U.S. Manufacturing Labor : 1988-2003
Khan, Abdullah M. - 2014
This paper explores the impact of globalization on some determinants of per worker labor productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and trade liberalization are examined as two main drivers of globalization in this study. The estimation...
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Relative Multifactor Productivity Levels in Canada and the United States : A Sectoral Analysis
Baldwin, John R. - 2009
This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative to that of the United States for the 1994-to-2003 period. Second, it examines the relative importance of differences in capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour...
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Revisions to Canada and United States Annual Estimates of Labour Productivity in the Business Sector, 2003 to 2006
Maynard, Jean-Pierre - 2009
This paper examines the impact of the revisions to labour productivity estimates and related variables covering the revision cycle of the National Accounts from 2003 to 2006 for Canada and from 2004 to 2006 for the United States
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Creating Jobs in India's Organised Manufacturing Sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2014
Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this sector. We find that there are...
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Is Hiring Foreign Worth It? Spillover from Foreign Firms’ Human Capital and Local Firms’ Productivity
Pyun, Ju Hyun; Sun, Jong-in - 2022
We examine the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms’ productivity via human capital transfer from multinational enterprises (MNEs) to local firms. Using the firm-level data for 2010–2015 from the Republic of Korea, we identify human capital spillovers using local firms’...
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