foreign countries) on various firm outcomes (domestic employment, production, and productivity). It uses data from the … destroyed/created due to offshoring. Moreover, we do not find an effect on labour productivity, since the negative effect on …

productivity dynamics using firm-level administrative data for South Africa. It is the first paper to benchmark employment and … productivity dynamics against various comparator countries for which similar analysis has been undertaken. The paper finds that … and exit is negligible. The static and dynamic productivity decompositions raise a concern that although productive …

condition where firms pay a real wage that exceeds the market clearing level and varies with productivity; (ii) an open economy …