This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor … productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge …

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 … percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries … phenomenon among professional services, the 4th largest sector in the EU15 business economy, which provide important intermediate …

This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to …

richer workers demand more low skill-intensive services (such as cleaning and personal services) but also more skill …-intensive services (such as education and professional services). The parametrization of a simple model suggests that this induced demand …

-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both services and materials offshoring. My results … suggest that we should expect, on average, a positive effect of services and a negative effect of materials offshoring on …, with larger effects from services. In particular, the average offshoring industry displays 1.4 to 1.98 additional …

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as … instrumental variables analysis. -- Services outsourcing ; offshoring ; innovation ; R&D …

productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …