outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …

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

industry. Also, the initialadvantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock ineffect …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour … demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing …

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 …

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … negative effect on outsourcing …