. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but …

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 …

In the early 1990s, trade and labor economists, noting the fall in wages for low-skilled workers relative to high …-skilled workers, began to debate the impact of trade on wages. This debate—which led to a sometimes heated exchange on the role of … workers in the middle of the wage distribution. In Offshoring in the Global Economy, noted economist Robert Feenstra offers a …

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 …

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 …

and ecological benefits and responsibilities arising from globalisation, technological change, and innovation. It analyses …