We analyze the effect of outsourcing on union wages in a simple two-stage game between a firm and a union. In contrast …

. 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 …

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 …

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

This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped …&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is offshored within the enterprise group, in contrast to offshoring outside … of the enterprise group. Third, most of R&D offshoring from Europe is directed to high-income European countries, not so …

In this paper, we provide first empirical evidence on the effect of outsourcing on union wages using linked employer … appears to deteriorate the bargaining position of unions. Outsourcing is not found to have a negative effect on the wages of … unaffected by outsourcing, high skilled workers see their wages rise in industries with a high level of outsourcing. There is no …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …

FDI coexists with international outsourcing, family firms unambiguously decrease FDI, whereas the effect on international … outsourcing is ambiguous: A substitution process may work towards an increase in international outsourcing activities. …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a …