This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model à la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss … the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-induced production cost advantages of a large …

outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion and, if labour markets are unionised, also the employment of high … associated with the fall of the Iron Curtain, indeed stimulate outsourcing to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and … second, that outsourcing to these countries significantly shifts relative employment in favour of high-skilled labour. …

This paper determines the distributional effects of international outsourcing in a two sector Hechscher-Ohlin type … model. It is shown that the factor-biased and the sector-biased impact of international outsourcing discussed in the … implications of international outsourcing, the main finding is that a Pareto-improvement cannot be excluded from a theoretical …

input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts … offshoring throughout all industries, with the effect increasing monotonically in the sourcing intensity. Our results lend strong …