, the growing use of intermediates imported from China has contributed to the productivity growth within the manufacturing … production processes of 22 high-income countries. Using China’s productivity as the exogenous variation, the main result – based … significant. With the preferred estimation, a one per cent increase in the use of intermediates imported from China does, on …

-factor productivity (TFP) growth for U.S. states over 1980 to 2010. Our growth accounting exercise shows that the current literature … considerably lower in magnitude when compared to the earlier studies. Productivity growth effects associated with high school … education remain insignificant. Our empirical findings are further validated by the use of instrumental variable estimation to …

implications of offshoring bias for manufacturing productivity and value added, we implement the bias correction developed by … the magnitude of the discounts from offshoring. We find that from 1997 to 2007 average annual multifactor productivity …The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which …

underestimation of deep integration projects such as TTIP. The panel data estimation of knowledge production functions for 20 EU …

and to estimate the contribution of aggregate input growth and total factor productivity (TFP) growth to income growth …

contribution from coastal proximity to productivity and quality of life. Extensively controlling for correlated natural attributes … productivity or quality of life, but not to both, suggests that the coastal concentration derives primarily from a productivity …

This work offers new insights into the determinants of service offshoring across countries and across service … offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the … respective service industry. The results from a zero-inflated Poisson pseudomaximum likelihood estimation indicate that the …