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

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 …

large and for BRS firms. -- Asymmetric information ; sorting ; incentives ; productivity ; outsourcing …

integration to changes in other relevant plant characteristics. We show that increases in outsourcing of services are positively …

success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument …

market. Using aggregate data from Chinese prefectural cities (2000-2016) and individual longitudinal data from China, we find …