a simple model of employment outsourcing, the primary implication of which is that firms will respond to externally … imposed firing costs by outsourcing positions requiring the least firm-specific skills rather than those with the highest …

and how these responses, in turn, are transmitted to the labor market. In previous work, we have argued that outsourcing … input purchases from the Census of Manufactures. We construct industry-by-industry estimates of outsourcing for the period … 1972-1990 and reexamine whether outsourcing has contributed to an increase in relative demand for skilled labor. Our main …

Slaughter (1993), in this paper I try to determine the extent to which outsourcing by multinational corporations contributed to … firms. I find that most of these facts are inconsistent with widespread outsourcing. Second, to test more rigorously whether … and in fact may be price complements. Taken together, these findings indicate that multinational outsourcing contributed …

1980's. We argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports reflecting the outsourcing of production …

analysis of our testable predictions using pharmaceutical data concerning patents, patent expiration, and outsourcing at …