Manzan, Sebastiano; Ross, Howard N. - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 2875-2883
The impact of offshoring on average labor productivity is investigated on a panel of 17 manufacturing sectors between 1989-2006. As proxies for offshoring, we use imports and import penetration, defined as the ratio of imports to output. We disaggregate the universe of exporters into low wage...