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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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Outsourcing, offshoring, and productivity measurement in manufacturing
Houseman, Susan - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288036
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003427043
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009657433
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065252
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154079
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154252
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Creating new administrative data to describe the scientific workforce: The STAR METRICS program
Lane, Julia; Schwarz, Lou - 2012
In common with many countries, the substantial United States investment in R&D is characterized by limited documentation of the nature and results of those investments (MacIlwain 2010, Marburger 2005). Despite the increased calls for reporting by key stakeholders, current data systems cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284003
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Creating new administrative data to describe the scientific workforce : the STAR METRICS program
Lane, Julia; Schwarz, Lou - 2012
In common with many countries, the substantial United States investment in R&D is characterized by limited documentation of the nature and results of those investments (MacIlwain 2010, Marburger 2005). Despite the increased calls for reporting by key stakeholders, current data systems cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548154
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Beyond traditional academic degrees : the labor market returns to occupational credentials in the United States
Baird, Matthew; Bozick, Robert; Zaber, Melanie A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
Occupational credentials provide an additional-and, at times, alternative-path other than traditional academic degrees for individuals to increase productivity and demonstrate their abilities and qualifications to employers. In the United States, these credentials typically take the form of...
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