A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …

.e., multinational enterprises and offshoring firms) contribute to occupational restructuring and to establishing the role of … occupational structures when explaining productivity and profitability gaps between global and local firms. The findings indicate … reflected in their productivity, it is not as clearly reflected in their profitability.The findings imply that employees have …

The phenomenon of offshoring, that is, the outsourcing of highly- qualified services into low wage countries was until … the controversial issue of the advantageousness of offshoring. The trend, which has been enforced by numerous consultants … validity. The following paper deals with the advantageousness of offshoring in the case of IT services. In order to detach …

During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in …-house offshoring to China is a major determinant of Dutch import growth from China. Dutch firms tend to offshore production in …