internalise all efficiency gains from offshoring. -- offshoring ; productivity ; spillovers ; manufacturing and services ; gmm … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to productivity …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this … prices and plant size and between input prices and plant size - and for how those correlations vary across sectors. Using … document three facts: (1) output prices are positively correlated with plant size within industries on average; (2) input …

spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers …We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration …, but no evidence of cross-industry spillovers in general. This picture changes, however, when we take vertical industry …

Intersectoral linkages can act as shock propagation channels and shape the pattern of structural transformation. To our … divergent patterns of structural transformation across regions. Using novel regional input-output tables and existing enterprise … the south of the country, (2) the effect of the mining output shock on output and productivity growth in other sectors …

Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour … productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper …

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this … immediately prior to opening up their own firm have higher productivity growth than other domestic firms. This suggests that these … firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other …

there were substantial spillovers to neighboring villages. Furthermore, IAs trigger a classic "structural transformation" of …

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits … a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …