workers are immobile across sectors and skills, it is found that the endogenous shifts in aggregate productivity and the …

into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the targeted plants into those within Swedish MNEs, Swedish exporting … acquisition dummy using an IV and propensity score matching approach suggest that acquisition by foreign owners increases the …

We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing … on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a … outsourcing of services on productivity for firms not operating on the export market. …

The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components … two components of productivity growth. We do so by analyzing the effects of an acquisition of a domestic establishment by … a foreign multinational enterprise, using a combined propensity score matching and difference-in-differences estimation …

We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms … transaction. The dataset also provides information to estimate the firms' productivity and their intensity in relationship …

We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms … transaction. The dataset also provides information to estimate the firms’ productivity and their intensity in relationship …

multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country …

Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity … and amplifies the impact of skill heterogeneity on earnings inequality. To quantify this effect, we analyze the earnings …-Hansberg (2006) to assess how much lawyers' productivity and the distribution of earnings across lawyers reflects lawyers' ability to …

difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimators. Our results suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in …This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, using … impacts result from acquisitions by EU multinationals. Also we discern some positive wage effects for unskilled workers …