We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross …-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and …

The issue of low-wage competition in services trade involving posted workers is controversial in the EU. Using Swedish …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

trademarks) and headquarter services (administration, management and advertising) partly reflects mispriced affiliate trade …

I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for … the high degree of censoring of the employment variable and the small cross-sectional dimension of the panel. I find that … service offshoring is skill-biased, because it raises employment among high-skilled occupations and lowers employment among …

We investigate the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks in Korea. We compare results obtained with two …

Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and …