Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and …-level studies. We find that outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Applying two alternative skill classifications we find … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. This approach …

investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …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 …

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 … heterogeneous within skill groups. We test this hypothesis by combining micro-level information on wages and demographic and …

rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative … inequality. The result is a bell-shaped relationship between wage inequality and offshoring when globalization is driven by …

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic …

We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in … the country of origin. Offshoring is associated with reduced feedback from offshored plants to domestic labs as well as … static decision to relocate plants but not R&D. Hence, offshoring may be chosen by firms when it damages the growth rate of …

innovation. In so doing, we model an industry in which R&D is performed by independent research labs and outsourcing production …We study the decision of firms between vertical integration and outsourcing in a dynamic setting with product … requires complementary upstream and downstream inventions. In the presence of search friction and incomplete outsourcing …

. Such outsourcing leads to increased wages for the remaining in-house production. We find that stronger unions, which imply … higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for international outsourcing. Though somewhat surprising, this result provides a … theoretical conciliation of the empirically observed trends of deunionization and increased international outsourcing in many …

to reduce its labour costs. If the level of wages is sufficiently low, the firm's rate of productivity growth approaches … time. Otherwise, it will gradually reduce its innovation effort over time and ultimately terminate production. Productivity …