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    Amiti, M., and S.-J. Wei. 2009. "Service offshoring and productivity: Evidence from the US." The World Economy 32(2): 203–220.

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    Baldwin, J.R. and W. Gu. 2004. "Trade liberalization: export-market participation, productivity growth and innovation." Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 20(3): 372–392.

    Baldwin, J.R., and W. Gu. 2005. Global Links: Multinationals, Foreign Ownership and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing. The Canadian Economy in Transition Research Paper Series, no. 9. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11-622-M. Ottawa: Statistics Canada.

    Baldwin, J.R., and W. Gu. 2006. "Plant Turnover and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing." Industrial and Corporate Change 5(3): 417–465.

    Baldwin, J.R., W. Gu, A. Sydor, and B. Yan. 2013. Material Offshoring: Alternate Measures. Economic Analysis Research Paper Series, no. 86. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11F0027M. Ottawa: Statistics Canada. Forthcoming in the Review of Income and Wealth.

    Baldwin, J.R., R.S. Jarmin, and J. Tang. 2004. "Small producers give ground in the 1990s." Small Business Economics 23(4): 349–361.

    Baldwin, J.R., L, Rispoli, and D. Leung. 2013. Canadian Labour Productivity Differences across Firm Size Classes. 2002 to 2006. Canadian Productivity Review. Catalogue 15-206. no. 32. Ottawa: Statistics Canada.

    Baldwin, J.R. and B. Yan. 2012a. "Export market dynamics and plant-level productivity: impact of tariff reductions and exchange-rate cycles." Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 114(3): 831–855.

    Baldwin, J.R. and B. Yan. 2012b. "Market expansion and productivity growth: do new domestic markets matter as much as new international markets?" Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 21(2): 469-491. (ASM and Workplace and Employee Survey WES)

    Bartelsman, E.J., J.C. Haltiwanger, and S. Scarpetta. 2013. "Cross-country differences in productivity: The role of allocation and selection." American Economic Review 103(1): 305–334.

    Bernard, A.B., J. Eaton, J.B. Jenson and S.S. Kortum. 2003. "Plants and Productivity in International Trade." American Economic Review 93(4): 1268–1290.

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    Bernard, A.B., and J.B. Jensen. 1999. "Exceptional exporter performance: Cause, effect, or both?" Journal of International Economics 47(1): 1–25.

    Bernard, A.B., J.B. Jensen, S.J. Redding, and P.K. Schott. 2007. "Firms in international trade." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(3): 105–130.

    Bitzer, J., and I. Geishecker. 2006. "What drives trade-related R&D spillovers? Decomposing knowledge-diffusing trade flows." Economic Letters 93(1): 52–57.

    Blinder, A.S. 2009. "How many US jobs might be offshorable?" World Economics 10(2): 41–78.

    Clerides, S.K., S. Lach, and J.R. Tybout. 1998. "Is learning by exporting important? Micro-dynamic evidence from Columbia, Mexico and Morocco." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 113(3): 903–947.

    Couture, L., J. Tang and B. Yan. 2015. Offshoring and Business Organization: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Firms. Mimeo. Industry Canada and Statistics Canada research paper. Forthcoming.

    De Loecker, J. 2007. "Do exports generate higher productivity?: Evidence from Slovenia." Journal of International Economics 73(1): 69–98.

    Egger, H., and P. Egger. 2006. "International outsourcing and the productivity of low-skilled labour in the EU." Economic Inquiry 44(1): 98–108.

    Feenstra, R.C., and G.H. Hanson. 1996. "Globalization, outsourcing, and wage inequality." American Economic Review, Papers and Proceeding 86(2): 240–245.

    Feenstra, R.C., and G.H. Hanson. 1999. "The impacts of outsourcing and high-technology capital on wages: Estimates for the United States, 1979-1990." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114(3): 907–941.

    Feenstra, R.C., and G.H. Hanson. 2003. "Global production sharing and rising inequality: a survey of trade and wages." In Handbook of International Trade, ed. K. Choi and J.H. Harrigan, p. 146–185. Chicago: Basil Blackwell.

    Goldberg, P., A. Khandelwal, N. Pavenik, and P. Topalova. 2009. "Trade liberalization and new imported inputs." American Economic Review 99(2): 494–500.

    Gorg, H., A. Hanley, and E. Strobl. 2008. "Productivity effects of international outsourcing: Evidence from plant-level data." The Canadian Journal of Economics 41(2): 670–688.

    Houseman, S. 2007. "Outsourcing, offshoring and productivity measurement in United States manufacturing." International Labour Review 146(1-2): 61–80.

    Kasahara, H., and J. Rodrique. 2008. "Does the use of imported intermediates increase productivity? Plant level evidence." Journal of Development Economics 87(1): 106–118.

    Kugler, M., and E. Verhoogen. 2009. "Plants and imported inputs: New facts and interpretations." The American Economic Review 99(2): 501–507.

    Mayer, T., and G.I.P. Ottaviano. 2007. The happy few: The internationalization of European firms: New facts based on firm-level evidence. Report from the research network European Firms and International Markets (EFIM). Bruegel/Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) initiative. Bruegel Blueprint Series, Volume III. Brussels: Bruegel.

    McCann, F. 2011. "The heterogeneous effect of international outsourcing on firm productivity." Review of World Economics 147(1): 85–108.

    Melitz, M.J. 2003. "The impact of trade on intra-industry reallocations and aggregate industry productivity." Econometrica 71(6): 1695–1725.

    Morrison Paul, C.J., and M. Yasar. 2009. "Outsourcing, productivity, and input composition at the plant level." Canadian Journal of Economics 42(2): 422–439.

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    Tang, J. 2014. "Are small or large producers driving the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap? Recent evidence from manufacturing." Canadian Journal of Economics 47(2): 517–539.

    Van Biesebroeck, J. 2005. "Exporting raises productivity in Sub-Saharan African manufacturing firms." Journal of International Economics 67(2): 373–391.

    Yasar, M., and C.J. Morrison-Paul. 2007. "International linkages and productivity at the plant level: Foreign direct investment, exports, imports and licensing." Journal of International Economics 71(2): 373–388.

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