In the last two decades, due to falling barriers to trade and investment, the world economic scenario has profoundly … offshoring of services towards India. …

Offshoring has received wide attention lately. Its potential effects, mainly to be materialized in employment and … belief, our data reveal that offshoring is not exclusive to large developed economies. Further, we highlight the continuing … prominence of the manufacturing over the services sector, and observe that, while services offshoring is on the rise, it still …

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 …