Japan and her dealings with offshoring: An empirical analysis with aggregate data

First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back only to very recent times, with employment and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject. In particular for Japan, the studies conducted so far focus on the disaggregate level and put the stress on the productivity side alone. Here I analyze both the employment and the productivity effects at the aggregate industry level, covering the years 1980-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both materials and services offshoring. The results presented here suggest that we should expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of materials offshoring on the growth rate of productivity.offshoring; employment; productivity;

Dpp e progetto di recupero funzionale e statico del Palazzo Ficini ad Orentano - Comune di Castelfranco di Sotto (PI)

La tesi riguarda il trasferimento della Biblioteca Comunale Decentrata delle Frazioni e del Polo Preistorico dell’Esposizione Comunale di Archeologia del Territorio, attualmente situati ad Orentano nei Locali del Vecchio Teatro, verso l’immobile ex-Palazzo Ficini, del quale l’Amministrazione Comunale di Castelfranco di Sotto (Pisa) ipotizza l’acquisto. La committenza si prefigge inoltre di diversificare i servizi culturali comunali, con la realizzazione di una biblioteca, un informagiovani, locali espositivi e spazi per riunioni. La tesi si propone di: • analizzare lo stato di fatto, comprese le vicende storiche di Orentano, poco note, e dell’ex-Palazzo Ficini, finora mai indagate, ed i servizi culturali attualmente presenti; • analizzare la consistenza attuale del Palazzo dal punto di vista della sicurezza strutturale ai fini della sua verifica, necessaria in seguito al cambio di destinazione d’uso, secondo l’ordinanza n° 3274 del 2003 con successive modifiche ed integrazioni; • progettare la nuova sistemazione dell’ex-Palazzo Ficini; • analizzare il progetto dal punto di vista della sicurezza strutturale, con la proposta degli interventi necessari all’adeguamento

The Japanese Lost Decade and Beyond: A Chain Reaction Theory Approach

The Japanese lost decade has become an intriguing puzzle for both economists and policy-makers alike, as the unemployment rate climbed to unprecedented levels and the growth rate of productivity decreased considerably. More recent times seem to present with a more optimistic outlook, but this is not yet the last word in the matter. In this paper we estimate two alternative multi-equation structural models descriptive of the Japanese labor market, that are then used to conduct dynamic simulations both for the lost decade period (1990-2002) and beyond (2002-2007). Our results point, primarily, to the damaging effects of the ever-increasing public debt as a major source of labor market inefficiencies. In addition, we find the fall in labor union power to have a significant easing effect on the unemployment rate, but also to be a major driver in the apparently eroding pattern of the labor income share in recent years.labor market dynamics, structural multi-equation models, chain reaction theory, simulations

Japan and her dealings with offshoring: An empirical analysis with aggregate data

First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject. In particular for Japan, the studies conducted so far focus on the disaggregate level and put the stress on the productivity side alone. Here I carry out both the analyses of the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both materials and services offshoring. The results presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of materials offshoring on the growth rate of productivity.offshoring; Japan; employment; productivity

Japan and Her Dealings with Offshoring: An Empirical Analysis with Aggregate Data

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both services and materials offshoring. My results suggest that we should expect, on average, a positive effect of services and a negative effect of materials offshoring on employment. However, the effects are rather negligible and only amount to a 1.5 to 2 percent net loss of the change in employment. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring, with larger effects from services. In particular, the average offshoring industry displays 1.4 to 1.98 additional percentage points for services and 0.48 to 0.64 for materials.offshoring, Japan, employment, productivity

Revisiting N=4 superconformal blocks

21 pages; v2: version published in JHEPWe study four-point correlation functions of four generic half-BPS supermultiplets of N=4 SCFT in four dimensions. We use the two-particle Casimir of four-dimensional superconformal algebra to derive superconformal blocks which contribute to the partial wave expansion of such correlators. The derived blocks are defined on analytic superspace and allow us in principle to find any component of the four-point correlator. The lowest component of the result agrees with the superconformal blocks found by Dolan and Osborn.Peer reviewe