Foreign ownership and productivity dynamics
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Outsourcing , foreign ownership , exporting and productivity :
We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from services inputs. Moreover, we examine whether the impact on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a multinational. Our results...
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*Ishikawa: Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8601, Japan. Fax: +81-(0)42-580-8882; E-mail: [email protected]. Sugita: Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel: +46-8-736-9254; Email: [email protected]. Zhao: RIEB, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan. Fax/Tel: +81-78-803-7006; E-mail: [email protected]. We than...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Economics Letters
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0165-1765
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(02)00323-3