, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …

. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation, offshoring, and tougher bargaining with labor unions. We show that …

.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …

The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …

mode of entry. One type of this mode is offshoring which makes easier the relocation of business activity from developed … economies to developing economies. The study of offshoring activities is the focus of this paper, with the data coming from a … multinational firms to be engaged in foreign direct investment via offshoring. …

darunter Offshoring, den Bezug von Leistungen aus dem Ausland, im Zeitraum seit 1971. Auf der Basis amtlicher Statistiken wird … für die Zunahme der Vorleistungsquote abgenommen hat. Mit der Zunahme des Outsourcings hat auch das Offshoring zugenommen … die aus dem Rest der Welt. Profitiert vom Offshoring der deutschen Industrie haben also insbesondere die Länder der …

This paper investigates the effects of offshoring on individual job satisfaction and perceived risk of job loss. The … industries with higher offshoring intensity report lower job satisfaction and/or are more prone to be unsecure at their jobs …. Second, they test whether these effects differ among four categories of collars. Their findings indicate that offshoring is …