indirect effects of foreign direct investment on measured firm level productivity depend on a number of firm specific features …

This paper shows how misleading is the facile contrast of Europe following a path of high productivity growth, high … shocks may initially create a positive trade-off between productivity and unemployment, they set in motion a dynamic path of … contributions of this paper are to show how a productivity-unemployment trade-off might emerge and how it might subsequently …

This paper revisits the discussion about the contribution of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth to Indonesia …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe …

I discuss reasons why manufacturing productivity statistics should be interpreted with caution in light of the recent … productivity statistics. Second, companies often outsource or offshore work to take advantage of cheap (relative to their output …) labor, and such cost savings are counted as productivity gains, even in multifactor productivity calculations. This fact has …

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

professional employer organizations—on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major … manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services significantly inflated manufacturing labor productivity measures, accounting for 0 ….5 percentage points of the annual growth rate from 1989 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2004. Although multifactor productivity measures …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism, but they rise dramatically after reforms, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …

a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …