R&D output to capture the contribution of R&D (direct and spilled-over) to regional productivity at the industry level …. The results suggest that interregional knowledge spillovers and their productivity effects are to a substantial degree …) produce interregional knowledge spillovers that have positive and highly significant productivity effects. The study, moreover …

suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …

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 … percentage points for services and 0.48 to 0.64 for materials. -- offshoring ; Japan ; employment ; productivity …

effect of R&D offshoring on industrial productivity in the home country using industry-level data for 18 OECD countries over … a 26-year period. Simultaneity between productivity and R&D offshoring is addressed by using foreign tax policy as an … instrument for offshored R&D. We show that R&D offshoring contributes positively to productivity in the home country …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

industry data from 2000 to 2012, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) change into the four components of embodied …

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … a rise in firm-level productivity. That is, the annual average growth rate of an exporting firm's productivity is … foreign markets boosts firm-level productivity. …