and how these responses, in turn, are transmitted to the labor market. In previous work, we have argued that outsourcing … input purchases from the Census of Manufactures. We construct industry-by-industry estimates of outsourcing for the period … 1972-1990 and reexamine whether outsourcing has contributed to an increase in relative demand for skilled labor. Our main …

The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the … increased outsourcing. Though the consolidation of volume may lead to productivity improvement, little is known about how this … shift toward outsourcing influences learning by providers of outsourced services. When producing output, the content of 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 …

While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth … literature to study the second moment properties of outsourcing. We begin by documenting a new stylized fact: the maquiladora … outsourcing industries in Mexico experience fluctuations in value added that are roughly twice as volatile as the corresponding …

reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether …

-connected exchanges on digital platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for …

We develop a theory of outsourcing in which there is market power in one factor market (labor) and no market power in a … show there is always outsourcing in the market allocation when a friction limiting outsourcing is not too big. The key … equilibria that vary in the degree of outsourcing. Across these equilibria, wages are lower the greater the degree of outsourcing …