Michel, Bernhard; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … for Belgium over the period 1995-2004, we examine this issue separately for manufacturing and market services. The results … show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to productivity …