We aim to investigate transition and trend of outsourcing production among Asian Economies. With the use of highly …

With production activity tending rapidly towards international fragmentation, this study examines the consequences for … labour countries of the forms of specialisation brought about by fragmentation processes. It further addresses the risk that …

This paper takes stock of the rapidly expanding literature on international outsourcing. The first part of the paper … outsourcing. In the author’s view, input-output tables are to be preferred in most cases, although it is acknowledged that the …-demand effects of international outsourcing. It starts off by describing the basic methodology and subsequently reviews the empirical …

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …

We show that the growth of the service sector facilitates outsourcing, or fragmentation of production. Services link … fragmentation. On the other hand, if there are high transport costs with a bias against complex specialized services, then free … trade in specialized services may work against fragmentation. On montre que la croissance du secteur des services facilite …

may not possess a comparative advantage in the service link activities that promote fragmentation. The paper discusses …

This paper is a non-technical survey of the literature on offshoring and outsourcing, with special focus on the …' tradeoffs between outsourcing and integration, the variation in the mixes of organizational forms and the location of outsourced …

Feenstra and Hanson (1999) propose a two-stop method to analyse the role of outsourcing and skill-biased technological … bias of outsourcing and SBTC. The results indicate that outsourcing has significantly contributed to the rise in the … domestic wage inequality accounting for approximately 12% of the increase in the UK in the 1990s. Factor-biased outsourcing was …

to shut down and relocate increases the average size of firms. The analysis also shows that outsourcing or contracting … more competitive. Fragmentation increases the skill premium because it leads to more homogenous firms, with respect to …