fragmentation may cause a domestic welfare loss, because outsourcing takes place in discrete steps where it affords firms "quasi … process of fragmentation caused by less costly outsourcing is beneficial for the domestic economy. …

asset specific to the fragment produced abroad, then fragmentation may cause a domestic welfare loss, because outsourcing … paper explores conditions under which outsourcing is beneficial for the domestic economy …

outsourcing. Assuming that outsourcing is takes place in only one of the two sectors, we show that under perfect markets it gives … rise to an "outsourcing surplus" which is analogous to the "immigration surplus". However, in contrast to the case of … immigration, the gain from outsourcing is the larger, the smaller the associated redistribution to the disadvantage of labor …

of trade barriers or restrictions on capital outflows or inflows (“globalization”) allows them to serve the domestic …