In this paper, we analyze how the offshoring of services by Swedish firms is affected by corruption in target economies …. The results suggest that firms avoid corrupt countries and that corruption reduces the amount of offshored services. In …

services are all important to contemporary firm competitiveness and participation in international value chains. Therefore …, historic policymaking divides between trade in manufactures and services, between export and import interests, and among modes …

The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but … group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that manufacturing is servicifying substantially. Services and qualified … services are increasingly characterising in-house activity in manufacturing. The results imply that treat-ing services and …

Foreign direct investment has been of large importance in economic growth and global economic integration over the last …

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has increased in importance over the last decades, globally as well as in Indonesia. We …

rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration, and we develop a three-country stochastic growth model to rationalize this … outcome. In the model, the increase in offshoring negatively affects the middle-skill occupations but benefits the high … services provided by low-skill workers. However, low-skill wages remain depressed as a result of the surge in unskilled …

"offshoring", is an important element of such a (global in scale) process of structural change having important implications for … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain … offshoring industries and types of professional groups affected by offshoring. Results provide a rather heterogeneous picture of …