This paper analyzes the offshoring strategy from an empirical view. It focuses on a set of models, extracts a set of … French manufacturing firms that provides detailed information on the offshoring strategy. The choice of offshoring modes is …

determinants of the choice between vertical integration and outsourcing at the international level. Our results show that the … significance of the inputs in the cost share of the firm. Our findings provide support for the property right models of offshoring …

Offshoring has received a lot of attention lately. However, the debate is largely confined to the static effects. This … paper shows that there are important implications of offshoring on the growth rate in an economy. In this paper I show that … offshoring a larger share of unskilled workers tasks, has an ambiguous effect on the growth rate of the economy. Recent work on …

product of Japanese MNEs offshoring production and shutting plants that are relative to others in their industry, high …

We provide the first firm-level evidence of the impact of the trade in producer services (“offshoring”) on the labour …

This paper explores the impact of offshoring, or contracting out of business activities to foreign providers, on firm … productivity, using Japanese firm-level data for the period 1994-2000. We find that offshoring has generally a positive effect on … productivity growth. This effect is robust to controlling for the possible endogeneity of offshoring with respect to unobserved …

intermediate good in-house and outsourcing it to a nonunionised foreign supplier that makes a relationship-specific investment in … developing the intermediate. The paper sheds light on the issue of whether international outsourcing offers a means to ‘escape …’ the power of domestic unions and on the existence of intra-industry wage dispersion. We show that outsourcing typically …

, entrepreneurship and outsourcing compared to the import-competing sector in a typical labor abundant country. Liberal trade regime will … promote entrepreneurship in general. This is the first elementary proposition. Local outsourcing also establishes a clear link …

We show that international outsourcing may reduce welfare of the outsourcing country by deterring market-entry, thus … showing a new effect which is different from the employment and the quality effects creating negative impacts of outsourcing …. Entry deterrence under outsourcing reduces domestic welfare if both the profit extraction and cost saving from outsourcing …