This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …

This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor … mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in … response to market conditions) and through policy-imposed barriers. A loosening of the immigration quota reduces outsourcing …

With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect … that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a general-equilibrium model with an … oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing sector. When there is a minimum wage, an outsourcing tax might be …

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …

influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing … expensive than outsourcing. The model therefore provides an explanation for the recent increases in outsourcing that have taken … model, namely, that all other things equal, the demand for outsourcing increases with the probability of technological …

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … negative effect on outsourcing. …

employment of skilled labor and changes in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, we show that international outsourcing has played …

The paper builds a framework for the analysis of research and development (R&D) offshoring and outsourcing that …