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 …

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

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