Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of … export experience in a market are more likely to source service inputs from there. We rationalize this fact in a model where … arm’s length. The model further implies that firms are more likely to offshore when frictions in the provision of services …

The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets …. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the … manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive effects are both on firms directly offshoring services and on non …

Substantial elements of innovation have been observable during recent years in rig supply, in particular regarding …

. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition … in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to …

In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by … services. Assimilated immigrants take on skilled jobs. At the political level natives choose the number of immigrants that can … be allowed, given some fixed price for services. We show that, at the assumed price, it is never optimal for natives to …

We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised … union bargaining power increases innovation if bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak and the cost … of innovation is moderate but low. Otherwise, a higher union bargaining power reduces innovation. Hence, whether a higher …