's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …

in the cost of investment induces investment in new capital which raises both measured capital and measured productivity …-fold productivity differences between the richest and poorest countries in our sample …

and productivity outcomes between the U.S. and the European Union. At the core, our model is a hybrid of the labor market … biggest distortionary effect on the allocation of resources both in terms of labor as well as in terms of productivity …

What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … productivity through expanding variety as well as improved input quality. The model leads to a production function where the total … factor productivity of a firm depends on the share of inputs imported. To estimate this import-augmented production function …

Researchers have estimated productivity changes surrounding trade liberalization for different countries, using … techniques influence the quantitative results by calculating productivity gains for Chile following the liberalization of the … trade on traded and nontraded good sectors. In agreement with other studies, we find aggregate productivity gains are driven …

understanding the movements in hours and productivity. Expensed investments are expenditures that increase future profits but, by … progress during the 1990s, causing a boom in market hours and actual productivity.H …

changes in telecommunications and computer technologies did significantly affect U.S. productivity and GDP growth in both the … productivity and capital all increase at the aggregate level. However, not all sectors of the economy respond in the same way … positive affect of the shock on Total Factor Productivity in the sector. Employment increases and capital increases appear to …

such as output and productivity growth are large and predictable. We also provide some evidence that professional …

Shifts in the underlying growth rate of productivity, such as occurred in the 1970s and the 1990s, are relatively rare … and difficult to identify in real time. In this paper, we document that economists' projections of trend productivity … simple updating rule based on an estimated Kalman filter model. We then examine the effects of shifts in trend productivity …

establishments that differ in productivity may be an important factor in accounting for cross-country differences in output per … to sizeable decreases in output and measured total factor productivity (TFP) in the range of 30 to 50 percent. We show …