Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …

possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by …

of these organizational forms. Better contracting institutions in the South raise the prevalence of offshoring, but may … reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether …

We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across … firms. We introduce a new instrument for offshoring: Bilateral Tax Treaties, which reduce the cost of offshore activities … in employment at the U.S. parent firm, with smaller effects at the industry and regional levels. In contrast, offshoring …

This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … by offshoring and exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However …

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … externalities can help explain the dynamic process of offshoring, where the most productive firms offshore first and the others …