Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. This approach …-level studies. We find that outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Applying two alternative skill classifications we find …

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 … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

integration)? Which firms choose to expand their sourcing activities across the national border (offshoring)? This letter provides … vertical integration and of offshoring tend to have been more productive ex ante than firms choosing not to do so. This finding …

by the cost of task trade. Comparing orders of magnitude we conclude that offshoring between similar countries only has a … small positive effect on the managerial wage premium, compared to offshoring between countries with a different relative …

The policy debate views offshoring as job destruction. Theoretical models of offshoring mostly assume full employment …-monotonic adjustment: Early stages of offshoring always lead to higher unemployment, while later stages may entail net job creation. We …