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 …

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 …

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 …

We offer a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence for a positive link between increased offshoring and … mainly focuses on the retraining of workers after a direct job displacement through offshoring. To establish a link between … offshoring and on-the-job training, we introduce an individual skill upgrading margin into the small-open-economy version of the …

We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing …. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from services inputs. Moreover, we examine whether the impact … multinational. Our results show robust evidence for positive effects from outsourcing of services inputs for exporters, either …