international division of labour, and has had correspondingly wide social and economic effects. These new and complex developments … how the offshoring of business processes in services industries plays out in South and Southeast Asia, and how this latest … threefold. First of all, it aims to draw attention to the outcomes of the global trend of business processes offshoring 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 …