integration to changes in other relevant plant characteristics. We show that increases in outsourcing of services are positively …

Recent pre-crisis growth accounting exercises attribute strong productivity growth toincreased investments in …-EU productivity gapare confirmed for Germany, particularly showing no substantially economy-wide effectsfrom ICT for German sectors …

offshoring. We find that from 1997 to 2007 average annual multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing was overstated by 0 …The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which … productivity. We maintain, however, that the dramatic acceleration of imports from developing countries has imparted a significant …

?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 …

strategy actually improves firm productivity. To this end, a large dataset of German manufacturing firms and various panel data … no significant effect of fixed-term employment on labor productivity when controlling for the selection effect. …

population and almost 50% of the survey respondents. To study how HRM practices affect the level of firm productivity, we first … positive association with the HRM practices and the level of firm productivity. Perhaps more importantly, however, we find that … not all forms of employee financial and decision-making participation practices have favorable productivity effects …

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …