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 …

Companies across industries gain the competitive advantage by outsourcing and offshoring. Developing countries are … becoming the attractive locations for the BPO/SSC enterprises. The article reviews the definition of outsourcing and offshoring … literature on outsourcing and offshoring. The article presents a preliminary analysis of offshoring sector in Poland. The …

engage in offshoring. Reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. China remains the most attractive site for …

countries the level of outsourcing reached its limits at the beginning of the new millennium. At the same time, the offshoring … expenditures approach that allows us to consistently analyse the role of i) outsourcing, ii) offshoring and iii) changes in final …

This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped … and unique Eurostat International Sourcing Survey. The results are easy to summarize. First, the magnitude of R …&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is offshored within the enterprise group, in contrast to offshoring outside …

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … magnitude is smaller. This makes intuitive sense, as international outsourcing allows more scope for exploiting international …

"Nedelyn Magtibay-Ramos, Gemma Estrada, and Jesus Felipe provide an analysis of the business process outsourcing (BPO …