In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

-South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply an increase in the …

integration)? Which firms choose to expand their sourcing activities across the national border (offshoring)? This letter provides … vertical integration and of offshoring tend to have been more productive ex ante than firms choosing not to do so. This finding …

This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot … manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how …

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …

equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …

firm-specific input suppliers when the final goods producers undertake complete outsourcing or bi-sourcing. Under complete … outsourcing, the final goods producers locate closer as the distance between the input suppliers decreases, but the distance … the final goods producers, and creates effects which are opposite to those under complete outsourcing. Thus, our results …