We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … positive effects of inshoring and smaller negative effects of offshore outsourcing. The net effect is positive. To illustrate … how small the effects are, suppose that over the next nine years all of inshoring and offshore outsourcing grew at rates …

When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …

This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are …

different productivity levels choose different ownership structures and supplier locations, i.e., they choose different …

Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …