This paper analyses how international outsourcing affects plant productivity, with the major contribution lying in the …, indigenous non-exporters are found to increase tfp for two periods after entering into international outsourcing, while … indigenous exporters experience one more weakly significant period of growth. The key message of the paper is thus: outsourcing …

. Finally, while effects of growth and unemployment rates are the same across demographic subsets, the effect of inflation is … skilled or not working. Our findings reinforce the political importance of employment and growth policies. …

Even before the financial crisis of 2007/08, there were significant questions about Europe's long-term growth prospects …. After a long period of catching up with US levels of labour productivity, euro area productivity growth had, from the mid … declining rates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth and weaker capital accumulation as areas for concern in an European …

relationship between foreign idiosyncratic shocks and domestic economic growth between 1978 and 2000. Contemporaneous changes in … associated with a 0.05-0.26 pp increase in economic growth. Lastly, this can potentially explain the Great Moderation. …