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 …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …

abroad, and where outsourcing is substitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for the … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing. Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount of resources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …