We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

This paper studies the effects of service offshoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a … rich data set of Italian firms and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that service offshoring has no …

The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are … by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories … in developing countries? Using a parsimonious two-country model of offshoring, we find very nuanced results. These …

While most offshoring literature focus on the effects on relative wages, other implications do not receive the …, discusses theoretical findings, and provides first empirical evidence for Germany. As results show, effects are mainly driven by … the industry where offshoring takes place. In high skill intensive industries, the high skill labor ratio increases (vice …