an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in … an outsourcing equilibrium than in a regime of no outsourcing. Consumer welfare rises, and under fairly plausible …

manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsourcing affect wages as predicted by the theory …This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …

In this paper we empirically explore the 'make-or-buy' decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using … detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants distributed in all manufacturing industries in … integration to changes in other relevant plant characteristics. We show that increases in outsourcing of services are positively …

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …