This paper investigates the impact of offshoring on export performances of French, German and Italian automotive firms …. We argue that the different offshoring strategies run by the main European automakers are responsible for the … panel data analysis and show that offshoring strongly affect exports of automotive firms. Focussing on the French and German …

This analysis characterizes empirically how good labour relations can alleviate the negative impact on productivity of … impact on total factor productivity (TFP). Regulatory constraints would become really binding when workers or unions use them …

quality innovation in the various goods sectors of an economy and 3) the limitations pertaining to the estimation of the true … import price elasticity as well as the policy implications of quality innovation on trade. In order to adjust for quality … effects, a quality proxy is constructed. This proxy considers the role of product innovation in the form of Research and …

This paper proposes a Bayesian approach to estimate a factor augmented productivity equation. We exploit the panel …

growth. This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing …Several recent policy and academic contributions consider that liberalising product markets would foster innovation and … sectors of the economy on the innovative process of manufacturing and its consequences on productivity. We test for a …

low productivity job-worker matches. The coexistence of entry and exit flows of workers in a large firm gives rise to a …