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 …

how the offshoring of business processes in services industries plays out in South and Southeast Asia, and how this latest … threefold. First of all, it aims to draw attention to the outcomes of the global trend of business processes offshoring in … manufacturing- and services-based waves of offshoring. The volume stands out from other books in the field in its exploration of the …