outsourcing grew at rates experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where … outsourcing (1) would switch 4-digit occupations 2 percent less often, (2) would spend 0.1 percent less time unemployed, and (3 …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider …

We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

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

correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …

not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …

integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …-country, two-good, two-factor model we show that free trade and offshoring have opposite effects on rich-country workers. Free … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while …

effects of globalization, with offshoring to low wage countries and imports both associated with wage declines for US workers … offshoring to China has also contributed to wage declines among US workers. However, the role of trade is quantitatively much … more important. We also explore the impact of trade and offshoring on labor force participation rates. While offshoring to …

We identify "first generation" statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, "second generation …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …

important aspects of global supply chain relationships: supply chain integration and collaboration; outsourcing and offshoring … customer power on supply chain integration and performance / Xiande Zhao ... [et al.] -- 10. Offshoring process / Dmitrij … Slepniov, Brian Waehrens, Hiroshi Katayama -- 11. Impact of strategic outsourcing on operational control / Rob Dekkers -- 12. A …