Off-shoring and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries

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We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way in which off-shoring is measured may matter considerably. The positive relation between off-shoring of intermediates and productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the Feenstra-Hanson off-shoring measure employed in other studies are used instead.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2288

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Multinational Firms; International Business
• Subject: offshoring ; productivity ; growth ; Italy ; manufacturing ; decline ; Offshoring ; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe ; Produktivität ; Auslandsproduktion ; Vorprodukt ; Unternehmensdienstleistung ; Italien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Daveri, Francesco ; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26333
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET