to take spatial dependence into account. Using data for Italy for the years 1991 and 2001, we apply exploratory spatial …

employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … growth and employment, and an overlook on the impacts of different policy measures on companies. The role of large companies … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …

of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after acquisition. Our …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … employment. However, the effects are rather negligible and only amount to a 1.5 to 2 percent net loss of the change in employment …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm …

within Japan, we find that the measures of sectoral productivity do not behave in the way suggested by the Balassa …