We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing … on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a …

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 …