This paper investigates outsourcing and foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions based on factor price differentials … (perfectly) mobile between countries, the Northern firm produces the final product by outsourcing the other fragmentable process … from the South via FDI (either FDI or outsourcing to a Southern outsourcee); (b) when the Southern firm acquires the …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …

This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model a la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss … the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-induced production cost advantages of a large …

, diaspora and low costs, and identify the institutional impediments to growth. A survey reveals that foreign outsourcing … comparison with the Indian software industry underscores the structural differences in outsourcing relationships developed by the …

activities across the globe. Due to their relatively high mobility and propensity for outsourcing, labor-intensive industries …

International outsourcing of services has come to occupy an increasingly important part of international trade …. Analytically services outsourcing is the export of services by a country to the outsourcing nation. Given this, the pattern of … essentially constitute outsourcers, and developing nations such as India and China that carryout outsourcing. Different …