reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether … supplier locations, and then study the effects of changes in the quality of contractual institutions on the relative prevalence … of these organizational forms. Better contracting institutions in the South raise the prevalence of offshoring, but may …

reshoring or offshoring. When the demand elasticity rises with price, two policy instruments generally are needed to achieve …

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

Outsourced workers experience large wage declines, yet domestic outsourcing may raise aggregate productivity. To study … wage premia. Second, outsourcing raises output at the firm level. Third, contractors endogenously locate at the bottom of … the job ladder, implying that outsourced workers receive lower wages. Using firm-level instruments for outsourcing and …

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 …

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 …

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