In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms …, help us confirm that these inter-industry productivity improvements can also be generated form a quasi-trade liberalization … event. Upstream linkages are the dominant source of these productivity benefits and are reaped mainly from medium-low tech …

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … condition where firms pay a real wage that exceeds the market clearing level and varies with productivity; (ii) an open economy … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …