Nottingham Centre for Research on
Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP)

GEP Research Paper 04/08

Outsourcing, foreign ownership, exporting and productivity: An empirical investigation with plant level data

Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley and Eric Strobl

Abstract

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 demonstrate that these distinctions can in general be important and are line with implications from the recent theoretical literature.

Issued in March 2004.

This paper is available in PDF format .

Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy

Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Enquiries: hilary.hughes@nottingham.ac.uk