are strongly regionally embedded and that offshoring is still a limited phenomenon. Outsourcing strategies are shown to …The paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing in the Lombardy region and relates them to the … probability of introducing product and process innovation. Based on a large firm-level survey, we show that outsourcing processes …

particular, the international dimension of outsourcing, off-shoring, has been attracting great attention, as it leads to the …Pervasive outsourcing is transforming business models and productive relations in advanced manufacturing areas. In … countries in the international division of labour. The present paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing and …

In this paper, we assess the extent of offshoring in the Italian manufacturing industries, and we study how this … phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input …-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on the general level of employment, and we don’t find any significant …

This paper reviews the existing empirical literature on the effects of offshoring and foreign activities of … of the fear that material offshoring worsens wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers; on the contrary …, results are still too ambiguous to support concerns that material offshoring raises the elasticity of unskilled labor demand …

develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and … incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm’s production chain between a … possibility of offshoring has favorable implications for economic growth. Yet, offshoring induced by a higher bargaining power of …

We investigate the trade-off between FDI and international outsourcing of interme-diate inputs by a producer of a final … subsidiaries and the latter are heterogeneous in productivity levels. We relate the resulting trade-off between outsourcing and FDI …