growing use of Chinese intermediates on the labour productivity growth in Nordic manufacturing production processes. The main … positive and economically relevant. This productivity effect exists before and after the financial crisis, in all Nordic … their domestic supply chains. Finally, China does not seem to be special: the productivity effect of the growing use of …

average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant … does not fall as fast as productivity does. A dynamic model of labor quality and quantity choice by plants is estimated to …