This paper explores the impact of offshoring, or contracting out of business activities to foreign providers, on firm … productivity, using Japanese firm-level data for the period 1994-2000. We find that offshoring has generally a positive effect on … productivity growth. This effect is robust to controlling for the possible endogeneity of offshoring with respect to unobserved …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in … inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …