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 …

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. …

I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for … service offshoring is skill-biased, because it raises employment among high-skilled occupations and lowers employment among … medium- and low-skilled ones. Within each skill group, service offshoring penalizes tradeable occupations and tends to …

selling abroad. Because offshoring requires larger sunk costs than domestic sourcing, some firms decide to offshore only when … between the domestic and the foreign market are greater. In turn, offshoring firms sell greater volumes, display less …

The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets …. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the … manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive effects are both on firms directly offshoring services and on non-offshoring …

A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone …, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm's productivity. Academic … perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm. In …

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 …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …