outsourcing decisions are affected by changes in country and competitor costs. A number of interesting regularities emerge. When a … developed countries. In many cases, the measured responses to cost changes appear to correspond with outsourcing theories that …

In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We …

their HQs so as to spread their different HQs functions over several locations around the world. The literature on the … that the competition between (potential) locations for HQ functions will rise. -- Internationalisation ; corporate …

effects. On the other hand, when looking at the effects of offshore outsourcing, the results are ambiguous …. -- internationalisation ; FDI ; outsourcing offshore ; employment ; labour market …

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …

We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across … firms. We introduce a new instrument for offshoring: Bilateral Tax Treaties, which reduce the cost of offshore activities … in employment at the U.S. parent firm, with smaller effects at the industry and regional levels. In contrast, offshoring …

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …