Hijzen, Alexander; Inui, Tomohiko; Todo, Yasuyuki - 2007
productivity, using Japanese firm-level data for the period 1994-2000. We find that offshoring has generally a positive effect on … productivity growth. This effect is robust to controlling for the possible endogeneity of offshoring with respect to unobserved … productivity shocks. Our preferred specification suggests that a one percent increase in offshoring intensity raises productivity …