. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …

pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …

growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured ….S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate …

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of …

We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …

lead employers to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning … dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …