Global sourcing is a complex area, and one that managers must get to grips with as business investment in outsourcing …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich … individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we … identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for low-skilled workers, though wage effects in relation to the task …

It is striking that by far the lion's share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …