-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on … domestic performances: productivity gaps between foreign and domestic firms, and productivity levels of MNEs. It is shown that … it is the combination of high gaps and high levels of foreign productivity that has the most positive effects. This leads …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis … productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four closely integrated European countries, Austria, Denmark, Germany and the … Netherlands, based on firm-level data. Participation in global value chains appears to have affected productivity positively …

We revisit UK's poor productivity performance since the Great Recession by means of both a suitable theoretical … over time, and distinguish between quantity total factor productivity (TFP-Q), i.e., the capacity to turn inputs into more … physical output (number of shirts, liters of beer), and what we call revenue total factor productivity (TFP-R), i …

Review of Stephen Broadberry, Market Services and the Productivity Race 1850-2000: British Performance in International …

This paper presents new estimates of total factor productivity growth in Britain for the period 1770-1860. We use a … sources, that productivity growth during the British Industrial Revolution was relatively slow. During the years 1770 …-1800, TFP growth was close to zero, according to our estimates. The period 1800-1830 experienced an acceleration of productivity …

communication technology (ICT) in explaining productivity growth in the United Kingdom, 1970-2000. The dataset is for 34 industries … accounted for 13% of productivity growth in the market sector in 1970-79 (ie 0.47 percentage points out of 3.62% per annum … productivity (TFP) growth slowed down in 1995-2000, but we find econometric evidence that a boom in 'complementary investment', ie …