The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which has recorded steep employment declines yet strong output growth—a fact reconciled by the notable gains in manufacturing productivity. We maintain, however, that the dramatic...

US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendous increases in post-1995 trend growth compared to Germany, while other (non-ICT-skill intensive) industries showed similar growth trends in both countries. Examining the source of industry productivity growth in German...

We estimate the effects of manufacturers' use of employment services—comprised primarily of temporary help and professional employer organizations—on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major contribution of the paper is the construction of...