variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and … employment to cyclical output growth across a panel of countries. Measured productivity contributes more to the cycle in Europe …

question whether this has led to productivity gains within firms. I address this question by combining industry-level data on … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …

This paper analyses the nature of knowledge spillovers from research and development (R&D) in the field of liquid …

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

do more than one of those activities. In our estimation we consider the relationship between productivity all the choice …

their engagement in already existing Indian firms. Most notably, the productivity of the German parents matters only for …

rate and the unemployment rate? In the model, fluctuations are prominently driven by productivity shocks which are commonly …

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The … initial and final regimes are essentially equal, thus supporting theories that explain the productivity slowdown by a slow …

This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct … externalities and other intra- and inter-regional spillovers generated by domestic firms. The productivity effects of these … explicitly as determinants of total factor productivity, and tests several empirical specifications of this model, using data for …