'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 …

Recent trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity … growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). The authors use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate …