caa a22 4500 445859288 CHVBK 20180317145437.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10290-010-0078-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10290-010-0078-2 Wagner Joachim Leuphana University Lueneburg, and IZA, Bonn, Germany aut Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both? [Elektronische Daten] [Joachim Wagner] This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on firm performance. Compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and had a higher share of exports in total sales. These differences existed the year before some firms started to relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better” firms into offshoring. To investigate the causal effects of offshoring, six different variants of a matching approach are used. Contrary to what is often argued we find no evidence for a large negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany. Kiel Institute, 2010 Offshoring nationallicence Germany nationallicence Enterprise panel data nationallicence Review of World Economics Springer-Verlag 147/2(2011-06-01), 217-247 1610-2878 147:2<217 2011 147 10290 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-010-0078-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-010-0078-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wagner Joachim Leuphana University Lueneburg, and IZA, Bonn, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of World Economics Springer-Verlag 147/2(2011-06-01), 217-247 1610-2878 147:2<217 2011 147 10290 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer