We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to … compensated partly by new job creation, particularly for high skilled workers. -- Outsourcing ; outward FDI ; motives ; location …

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 …

It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the … outsourcing and global sourcing is found to be much weaker. …

goods and have thereby neglected the impact of international outsourcing. In this paper it is argued that outsourcing can be …

outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that …

This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot … manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how … regions. -- Offshoring ; outsourcing ; Cournot competition ; intermediate goods ; high-skilled ; low-skilled …

The possibility to outsource over the internet should revolutionize foreign outsourcing, especially for services … change when firms outsource online due to access and competition effects. Using data for 99 firms who started outsourcing … online in 2003 together with a control group (never outsourcing online) of over 682 Irish firms, we apply OLS and Propensity …