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 …

This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped … and unique Eurostat International Sourcing Survey. The results are easy to summarize. First, the magnitude of R …&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is offshored within the enterprise group, in contrast to offshoring outside …