Slaughter (1993), in this paper I try to determine the extent to which outsourcing by multinational corporations contributed to … firms. I find that most of these facts are inconsistent with widespread outsourcing. Second, to test more rigorously whether … and in fact may be price complements. Taken together, these findings indicate that multinational outsourcing contributed …

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 …

analysis of our testable predictions using pharmaceutical data concerning patents, patent expiration, and outsourcing at …

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 …