This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization … outsourcing/offshoring indices based on input-output data (World Input Output Database, April 2012 release). Two-way relations … place, but international outsourcing plays a negligible role in wage equalization. Moreover, even though regression results …

program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts … engage in offshoring, and that this leads to gains in output and (measured) productivity, and potential gains in employment … and wages, in the remaining domestic activities of the offshoring firm. Consistent with these models, we find that …

About 40% of employment in manufacturing is in services functions. This paper develops a measure of narrow outsourcing … suppliers. Narrow outsourcing is entered into labour demand functions where labour is broken down on business functions using … OECD data combined with the 2016 releases of the World Input Output Database (WIOD). The impact of narrow offshoring on …