chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically … competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting … labour market power. However, offshoring between symmetric countries has negative welfare effects and therefore calls for …

down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …

-South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply an increase in the …. -- Intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; outsourcing tariffs …

on enterprise offshoring behaviour, with offshoring to regions outside of the advanced European Union's economies being …

between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given heterogeneity at the product- (complexity), firm- (productivity) and country …

between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given heterogeneity at the product- (complexity), firm- (productivity) and country …

of firms between procurement from related parties and outsourcing to independents suppliers at the product level. It also … breaks down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two … (i) for technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by …