The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers … intensity on total factor productivity, particularly of small domestic firms and large foreign-owned firms, and on skill …

productivity. The effects of automation are counterbalanced by the creation of new tasks in which labor has a comparative advantage …, especially in manufacturing, a weaker reinstatement effect, and slower growth of productivity than in previous decades. …

This article explores whether a relationship exists between the skill shortages that a market faces, and the wages in … that workers in markets with higher levels of skill shortages receive higher wages, although this effect is minimal. For …

productivity (TFP) on the equilibrium relative wage of low-skilled workers in eleven high-income countries. The key finding is that …