increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …

and previous empirical literature and stand in marked contrast to the outcome for indirect measurement concepts. Our …

There is a substantial heterogeneity in productivity when comparing individual firms. However, even when heterogeneity …

total factor productivity by estimating production functions using plant-level physical output data. To deal with the … productivity. As a robustness check, I model the exporting decision explicitly and jointly estimate it with the production function … panel-data regressions at the industry (4-digit NIC) level to estimate the relationship between productivity and measures of …

Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the … service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning … the underlying reasons for productivity differences in service firms are therefore important. Why is the productivity in …

Japan or in one of the BRIC countries Brazil, Russia, India and China. On the one hand, the still existing wage gap offers …