equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …

The paper asks whether the exercising of the NATO membership option is justified for Finland and Sweden in the light of …. The Turkish intervention in the membership process after the membership applications of Finland and Sweden were delivered … towards the membership. In both countries, the majority of people turned to favor the membership within 2-3 months. Finland …

attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In … immigration. We also find that conservative voters in Sweden are more likely to prefer freer trade but higher immigration barriers …. Once various economic and demographic determinants of globalization barrier preferences along with voters’ ideologies on a …

uncertainty by observing offshoring firms’ behaviour. The model characterises a sequential offshoring equilibrium path, led by the … Colombia, we test for the determinants and timing of offshoring decisions. We also derive spatial probit structural models to … identify the firms’ dynamic trade-off when they decide on the offshoring location. We find supportive evidence for the model …

economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical …Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global …

by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …

. Such outsourcing leads to increased wages for the remaining inhouse production. We find that stronger unions, which imply … higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for international outsourcing. Though somewhat surprising, this result provides a … theoretical reconciliation of the empirically observed trends of deunionization and increased international outsourcing in many …

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …

) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …