We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey …

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand … between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is …

I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages …, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring … across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local labour employment and wage elasticity to services offshoring …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service …

. While the individual effects of engaging in the listed practices on firm innovation are well-understood, the existing … sample of innovation-active firms from the German Community Innovation Survey, which includes information on the development … of standards, enhanced with information on firms' engagement in patenting and publishing. We find that 26% of innovation …

product innovation is stronger when firms provided feedback at the interim stages. In contrast, whether and how firms set … milestones was not associated with the likelihood of product innovation. The marginal effect of feedback was larger for new …-to-market product innovation than for new-to-firm product innovation, and the feedback from non-R&D organizations within the firm in the …