productivity, using Japanese firm-level data for the period 1994-2000. We find that offshoring has generally a positive effect on … productivity growth. This effect is robust to controlling for the possible endogeneity of offshoring with respect to unobserved … productivity shocks. Our preferred specification suggests that a one percent increase in offshoring intensity raises productivity …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy … that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy … that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence … on other core dimensions of firm performance. -- Offshoring ; Germany ; enterprise panel data …). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence … on other core dimensions of firm performance. -- Offshoring ; Germany ; enterprise panel data …). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and …