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 …

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 …

This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped …&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is offshored within the enterprise group, in contrast to offshoring outside … of the enterprise group. Third, most of R&D offshoring from Europe is directed to high-income European countries, not so …

outsourcing of production. The analyses of these studies are considerably constrained by limitations in the international trade … impact of foreign offshoring of intermediate inputs on the growing wage gap in U.S. manufacturing industries is larger than …

, Offshoring, and Offshore-Outsourcing. Following this conceptualization, primary data from 830 information technology and product … that project organization types that span country boundaries (Offshoring and Offshore-Outsourcing) outperform Collocated … (Offshoring and Offshore-Outsourcing) compared to all types of domestic project organizations (Collocated Insourcing, Distributed …

, with services accounting for nearly half of the total intermediate imports. It seems that offshoring of services is …