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 …

1980's. We argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports reflecting the outsourcing of production …

outsourcing decisions are affected by changes in country and competitor costs. A number of interesting regularities emerge. When a … developed countries. In many cases, the measured responses to cost changes appear to correspond with outsourcing theories that …

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …