We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in …

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 …

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

of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … offshoring channel. Offshore outsourcing of R&D has a positive effect on the anticipated domestic employment, whereas in …-house offshoring of R&D has a negative effect. Specific for the manufacturing sector is that offshore outsourcing of production also …

This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …

increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …

down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …

the intermediate from vertically integrated producers, or from independent suppliers. In both cases, offshoring part of …