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 …

It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

Companies across industries gain the competitive advantage by outsourcing and offshoring. Developing countries are … becoming the attractive locations for the BPO/SSC enterprises. The article reviews the definition of outsourcing and offshoring … literature on outsourcing and offshoring. The article presents a preliminary analysis of offshoring sector in Poland. The …