on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tariff reductions raise … parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tariff rates can lead to total factor productivity …

offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the …In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …