Global Outsourcing and Dynamics of Economic System

这项研究的主要目的是考察外包活动对日本和东道国经济体系的影响。我们发现，这些活动与日本企业的生产率增长呈正相关。然而，与此同时，我们也发现跨国公司从日本撤出，这在一定程度上降低了日本宏观层面的生产率增长。中国是日本企业外包的主要东道国之一，并从积极的溢出效应中获益，这在一定程度上使中国企业能够提高自己的生产率。不考虑这些生产率的提高，本研究证实了中国的经济全球化正在进行。

The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of outsourcing activities on the economic systems both in Japan and the host countries. We found that these activities are positively associated with the productivity growth across Japanese firms. However, at the same time, we also found that multinational firms have withdrawn from Japan, which partly reduces the productivity growth at the macro level in Japan. China is one of the major host countries of outsourcing from Japanese firms and gains benefits from the positive spillover effects, which somewhat enable Chinese firms to improve their own productivities. Independently of these productivity improvements, this research confirms that the economic globalization in China proceeds.