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 …

This paper estimates the possible effects of offshoring on Japanese employment. Both the positive and negative effects … are here considered as a result of both the offshoring of production (or materials) and services. My main finding is that … the net amount of jobs lost to offshoring during the past two and a half decades is negligible, as it was the role of …