This chapter presents the major results of a comparative study of productivity growth in manufacturing in Japan and the … United States conducted by the authors at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Japan was chosen for the comparison because the … growth of productivity there has been extraordinary despite a less than favorable economic environment and because the U …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

productivity. We maintain, however, that the dramatic acceleration of imports from developing countries has imparted a significant … implications of offshoring bias for manufacturing productivity and value added, we implement the bias correction developed by … the magnitude of the discounts from offshoring. We find that from 1997 to 2007 average annual multifactor productivity …

the drop in private economy productivity growth between 1990-2000 and 2010-2016, though it accounted for less than 20% of … aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in almost all three-digit manufacturing industries, almost 40% of the fall … in aggregate manufacturing productivity growth reflected a slower decline of the deflator for computers and electronic …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …