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 …

Abstract: This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using … the host country. Our results show that there are, on average, productivity benefits from inward FDI, although we can … identify a number of countries which, on aggregate, do not appear to benefit in terms of productivity. On the other hand, a …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …

This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …