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 …

This contribution analyzes the impact of intangible capital on labor productivity growth across countries at the … capital deepening accounts for around 40 percent of labor productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. Second …, we find that this positive impact of intangible capital on productivity growth at both levels of aggregation is driven by …

This contribution analyzes the impact of intangible capital on labor productivity growth across countries at the … capital deepening accounts for around 50 percent of labor productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. Second …, we find that this positive impact of intangible capital on productivity growth at both levels of aggregation is driven by …

factor mobility, leading to a convergence equation with spatial effects. The empirical analysis is based on the estimation of …

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 …

, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …