growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured ….S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate …

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …

This paper examines India's role in services outsourcing within Asia. It provides a brief overview of the global as … well as Indian services outsourcing industry. The core section examines India's relationship with other Asian countries … such as China, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia in service outsourcing. It examines the extent to which these …

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

The paper builds a framework for the analysis of research and development (R&D) offshoring and outsourcing that … literature on international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), economic geography, and innovation, and compares these with …

equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …