materials offshoring on the growth rate of productivity. …First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment … and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject. In particular for Japan, the studies …

we use plant and firm data to investigate the issue. The low rate of productivity growth in Japan is also often seen as a … product of Japanese MNEs offshoring production and shutting plants that are relative to others in their industry, high … productivity. We find that this is true, plants shut by MNEs are relatively more productive than the industry average, but they are …

studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the …

industries are increasingly clustered, localization has generally decreased in Canada according to our measures. We further …

in Canada, i.e., localization is decreasing. Yet, some of the most localized industries are becoming even more localized …

Expenditure Surveys of Statistics Canada. Simple OLS regressions show that the determinants of Canadian diversity demand are … bestätigen, dass die Nachfrage nach Lebensmittelvielfalt in Kanada von ähnlichen Determinanten bestimmt ist wie in anderen …

article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has … authors find that Canada experienced a greater pick-up in total factor productivity growth than the United States. Increased …Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this …

cent of that in Ontario in 1960 to 86 per cent in 1999. He decomposes this change into three sources: productivity …