question whether this has led to productivity gains within firms. I address this question by combining industry-level data on … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

The distribution of labour productivity is investigated by analyzing the longitudinal micro-level data set which … function of the second kind is applied to explain the distribution. We calculate marginal labour productivity by using the … characterizing high productivity range and low productivity range, we show that inequality of low productivity range is larger than …

firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the … productivity and a proxy for labor productivity, we find significant ex-ante differences in productivity between exporters and non …-exporters and no difference in the ex-post productivity gains. These findings suggest that even in a large emerging economy with …