outsourcing, or international fragmentation. Economists have investigated this phenomenon with a focus on welfare and factor price … welfare efect of outsourcing. Moreover, the paper highlights a crucial distinction between outsourcing that takes place in an … firms must rely on arms-length trasactions. The results are as follows. a) With foreign direct investment, outsourcing which …

. The paper identifies conditions under which outsourcing to a low-wage country is a friend or an enemy to domestic labour …

abroad, and where outsourcing issubstitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing.Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount ofresources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …

abroad, and where outsourcing is substitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for the … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing. Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount of resources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …

production to the other. In the country whose firms outsource production abroad, the government will respond to outsourcing by … the absence of outsourcing. The tax policy response by the government in the country that receives foreign production …

distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm’s choice is …

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under international outsourcing and FDI. We show how the joint effect of … outsourcing and FDI on the optimal marginal income tax rates depends on whether FDI is horizontal or vertical. …