The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to lowwage economies. This trend … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii …) it increases inequality among high- and low-income groups; and (iii) the gains from outsourcing can be made Pareto …

activities. The result of this is that outsourcing has contributed to an increase in the strategic impact of purchasing … departements. This article builds on the reasoning that the outsourcing process belongs to the purchasing departments themselves …. Two fundamental questions are asked: What purchases should be covered by outsourcing? Which activities, internal to the …

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the “indirect … outsourcing of the “less important” supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …

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 …

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …

Outsourcing is one of the main origins of firm's shrinkage. Outsourcing strategy can be defined as the purchase of a … consequences of outsourcing ? Transaction Cost Theory (TCT) and Resource Based View (RBV) literature are the main theories … mobilized to understand outsourcing strategy. We present the case study of a French company that outsourcized most of its …

is to understand why some firms renegotiate their outsourcing contracts. The relationship between the age of the … outsourcing contract and the number of renegotiations is straightforward. Older contracts are more likely to require adjustments … examined. This paper finds that the positive relationship between the age of outsourcing contracts and the number of …