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

appear to condition outsourcing decisions. The data for 1991-2000 show that U.S. overseas assembly imports were characterized … educated countries passed-through a much larger portion of their cost changes. In addition, the price of outsourcing imports … differential price responses suggest that information issues play an important role in the mediation of outsourcing relationships …