improvement in productivity. Both econometric and non-parametric approaches are applied based on a 6-year balanced panel data of … international trade volume and trade structure towards high-tech exports result in positive effects on China's regional productivity …

Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics … for exogenous demand shocks by trade orientation, assuming that labour and capital are state variables, and productivity … variable that is driven by lagged productivity as in Melitz (2003), leading productivity to follow a second-order Markov …

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …

international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a … recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996) estimate the effect of international outsourcing on wage inequality in the US. This … paper extends the FH approach by using more detailed definitions of outsourcing and skill. The analysis applies to UK …

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …

Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply …

(exports and imports) and dimensions of firm performance (productivity, wages, profitability and survival). It discusses recent …