This paper reviews the implications of outsourcing and offshoring for the productivity of business services in the UK … employment and productivity. First, we discuss outsourcing and offshoring, and their role in enhancing productivity through …. Official statistics indicate that business-service productivity has grown by over 20 per cent in the last 7 years at the same …

find that productivity gains from outsourcing of services activities may be substantial. Reducing local trade costs might …This paper studies how outsourcing of services activities affects TFP at the firm level. Using the universe of buyer …-supplier relationships in Belgium, we first document several new empirical facts about how firms engage in the outsourcing of supporting …