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Theory suggests that as firms outsource more &#x27;non-core&#x27; activities to specialized providers, productivity due to the firm benefiting from cheaper or higher-quality inputs and from reallocation of resources towards higher value-added activities. The international outsourcing case adds another dimension in the form of input variety, quality and technological embeddedness. I test the above hypothesis using a &quot;System GMM&quot; estimator to control for endogeneity in the panel and allow for a lagged dependent variable to be a regressor. 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