sort into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply …

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 …

lead employers to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning … dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …

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 …

I study the interaction between optimal procurement and outsourcing of production in small industries. First, two … sellers decide about outsourcing. By outsourcing, a seller loses information about the costs of producing to his supplier … suppliers. The focal equilibrium might exhibit bilateral outsourcing although outsourcing is modeled to have no direct positive …