We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm's expectation of … outsourcing. No prior study has been able to provide such causal evidence. Our results are robust to the inclusion of detailed …

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …

We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of … outsourcing. No prior study has been able to provide such causal evidence. Our results are robust to the inclusion of detailed …

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

influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing … expensive than outsourcing. The model therefore provides an explanation for the recent increases in outsourcing that have taken … model, namely, that all other things equal, the demand for outsourcing increases with the probability of technological …

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 …

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …