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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An empirical investigation

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Holger Görg
Aoife Hanley

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We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the magnitude is smaller. This makes intuitive sense, as international outsourcing allows more scope for exploiting international factor price differentials, therefore giving the establishment higher profits and more scope to restructure production activities towards innovation. We also find that international outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as predicted by theory, while this is not true for domestic sourcing. The results are robust to various specifications and an instrumental variables analysis

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Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Kiel Working Papers with number 1417.

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Keywords: international services outsourcing; innovation; R&D;

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F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Country and Industry Studies of Trade
O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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  1. Matthias Deschryvere & Annu Kotiranta, 2008. "Domestic Employment Effects of Offshoring: Empirical Evidence from Finland," Discussion Papers 1166, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. [Downloadable!]
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