We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing … on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a … outsourcing of services on productivity for firms not operating on the export market. …

labour productivity. We control for different regional and firm characteristics, and we instrument enforcement with the … it is likely to contribute to an improvement in productivity. …

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

This paper explores the interrelation between the degree of unemployment persistence and the unemployment-productivity …

included quality, productivity, implementation performance of new technologies, and also more ‘intangible’ effects in terms …

In this paper, I have examined whether exporters benefit by exporting more, and also whether the productivity benefits … productivity gains. …

productivity differs between regions. Using a decomposition method, akin to shift-share, we are able to separate regional wage … disparities into an industrial composition component and productivity component. According to theory it is expected that … productivity is higher in larger regions due to different kinds of economies of agglomeration. Also, larger regions are able to …