Lin, Songhua; Ma, Alyson C. - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 1, pp. 39-49
This paper aims to provide the first investigation of the productivity effect of outsourcing by using the Korean … industry data at the three-digit ISIC level. We find that there are positive productivity gains from material outsourcing. The … impact of material outsourcing increases when we account for the share of imports from China. This is due to the growth of …