of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that … the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to reorganize with a more decentralized management, improving the … competitiveness of the offshoring firms. We show further that the offshoring of managerial tasks relaxes the constraint on managers …

of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that … the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to reorganize with a more decentralized management, improving the … competitiveness of the offshoring firms. We show further that the offshoring of managerial tasks relaxes the constraint on managers …

find that multinational firms in Austria and Germany are outsourcing skill intensive activities to Eastern Europe taking … advantage of cheap abundant skilled labor there. We find that the firms' outsourcing activities to Eastern Europe are a response … found for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Skilled workers in Austria and Germany are losing from outsourcing. In …

reorganize to more decentralized management improving competitiveness of offshoring firms. We show further that offshoring of … level of decentralization and CEO wages of offshoring firms. In sufficiently open economies, however, managerial offshoring …