of production with new survey data of Austrian and German firms investing in Eastern Europe. I show estimates of the … of intrafirm imports from that region. These factors also favor outsourcing over offshoring. In contrast, low … alternative suppliers in Eastern Europe) favor offshoring over outsourcing. Tax holidays granted by host countries in Eastern …

Recent empirical evidences show negative relationship between outsourcing and profitability. This paper provides a … theoretical explanation for this phenomenon. In an oligopoly model, we show that firms earn lower profits in the outsourcing … equilibrium compared to the situation where neither firm does outsourcing, and it holds irrespective of the intensity of …

We investigate firms' outsourcing decisions when production requires a large number of inputs. The novelty of our …

International outsourcing to lower cost countries such as China and India can best be understood through the enrichment … of trade models to include concepts from industrial organization and contract theory that explain the vertical … both theoretical and empirical research. This survey paper provides a perspective on this new literature so as to gain …

In this paper, I focus on the effects of outsourcing on conditional labor demand elasticities. I begin by developing a … model of outsourcing that formalizes this relationship. I show that the increased possibility of outsourcing (modeled as a … elasticities during the 1980-1992 period. After 1992 elasticities began to decrease in outsourcing industries. This finding is …

EFunds Corporation is the third largest business process outsourcing (BPO) provider in India. Specializing in the …

For a developing economy such as India with a large pool of trained manpower outsourcing represents a huge economic … opportunity. In the West there has been considerable media led agitation against outsourcing due to the unemployment it causes …. The key point is that jobs created by outsourcing are not really in Indian hands. It becomes imperative to understand what …

We examine empirically the effect of international outsourcing on labour demand at the level of the individual plant … reductions in plant level labour demand, which we attribute to the use of international outsourcing. There appear to be stronger … negative effects from outsourcing of materials than from services outsourcing …