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

In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …

improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …

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 …

countries the level of outsourcing reached its limits at the beginning of the new millennium. At the same time, the offshoring … expenditures approach that allows us to consistently analyse the role of i) outsourcing, ii) offshoring and iii) changes in final …

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …