, but not necessarily formal-to-informal outsourcing, and, in response, the developed nation wage can fall. Productivity … improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …

Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms …

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 …

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …

an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in … an outsourcing equilibrium than in a regime of no outsourcing. Consumer welfare rises, and under fairly plausible …