Re: [Pen-l] A "productivity" claim

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Anthony,

The snippet I sent to Pen-l was from a book review in the Wall St. Journal and just said that the authors of the book cited Commerce Dept. figures.  Perhaps there was no "report".  The book under review is:  Globalization:  The Irrational fear that Someone in China will Take your Job.  Authors are Bruce C. Greenwald and Judd Kahn.

Gene

On Dec 25, 2008, at 3:04 AM, Anthony D'Costa wrote:

Could I have the source for this report?  A quick search at Dept of Commerce did not come up with it although older studies cropped up.

Anthony

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Dec 24, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Shane Mage wrote:

On Dec 24, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Jim Devine wrote:

FWIW, it's hard to separate these causes of job loss.

Emphatically.  Outsourced jobs are likely to be the least productive ones, jobs that can be replaced by relatively unskilled labor at second-world wages, and so outsourcing in and of itself raises average measures of manufacturing productivity.

Have any of the bold PEN-Lers commenting on this paper actually read it?

Doug

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