reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether … of these organizational forms. Better contracting institutions in the South raise the prevalence of offshoring, but may …

has to overcome. If production abroad involves a fixed cost, offshoring one intermediate unambiguously facilitates … offshoring of other intermediates. However, if production abroad involves incomplete contracts, offshoring one intermediate …

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …