's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …

on the relevance of productivity in the German-Czech FDI relations. We pursue a reference group approach by comparing …. The second stage examines the relationship between productivity and the intensive margin of FDI. We find evidence that … productivity is not only a crucial factor for the decision to invest in the neighboring country, but plays also a relevant role for …

Empirical studies analysing productivity effects of inward FDI in Latin America (LA) are inconclusive. We argue that … FDI to generate productivity effects differs across sectors. For these reasons and because sectoral FDI intensities vary … significantly among LA countries and change over time, we investigate the productivity effects of FDI in eight different sectors …

simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …