Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11% of productivity growth during this period …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …

We study the role of productivity and corporate taxation as driving forces of FDI among OECD countries in the presence …, suggest that there are marked differences in the sensitivity of FDI flows from the U.S. to productivity and taxes in OECD … FDI flows among 18 OECD countries over the period 1987 to 2003.The sensitivity of these flows to productivity in the U …

Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity “spillovers” to the host country, but both …-ante identical workers learn from their employers in proportion to the firm’s productivity. Foreign-owned firms have, on average …, higher productivity in equilibrium due to entry costs, which means that low-productivity foreign firms cannot enter. Foreign …