This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically … competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting … labour market power. However, offshoring between symmetric countries has negative welfare effects and therefore calls for …

the intermediate from vertically integrated producers, or from independent suppliers. In both cases, offshoring part of …

down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …

offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first apply an analytical partial-equilibrium model of a two-stage production process …

offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first apply an analytical partial-equilibrium model of a two-stage production process …

from a low-wage country. Offshoring an intermediate is only profitable when it has matured sufficiently and the savings in … for parts that are only exported later, consistent with offshoring becoming gradually more difficult. …

This paper challenges the conventional academic view that international outsourcing is just another form of gainful … trade. Contrary to this view, we show that labor-service outsourcing can reduce the high-wage country's welfare even when …. Outsourcing's impact on welfare is worsened by a definite loss of jobs and a possible contraction in the range of varieties …