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Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries; Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility

Saito, Mika - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

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Do Technology Shocks Lead to Productivity Slowdowns? Evidence From Patent Data

Christiansen, Lone Engbo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The … analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily fall below trend after technological progress. However, the effects on …

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Service offshoring, Productivity, and Employment; Evidence From the United States

Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in...

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