It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

The paper analyses a partial equilibrium outsourcing model with Cournot competition in intermediate good production …. Final production is located in western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a western (outsourcing …) or eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). Interregional production (factor) allocation depending on factor …

This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot … manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very …-level data on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to …

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of … sector, material offshoring, and offshoring to Central and Eastern Europe. Second, we find that the labour market adjusts to …

not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

, we also report a 2-3 percent reduction in the level of materials offshoring following a switch to internet procurement …

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to …