Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries

Francesco Daveri () and Cecilia Jona-Lasinio ()

No CESifo Working Paper No. 2288, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo Group Munich

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: offshoring; productivity; growth; Italy; manufacturing; decline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 F23 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written
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