complexity in captive offshoring and offshore outsourcing, respectively. Moreover, we show that experience and a strong …

This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1947-2007, and … is where most of the service outsourcing activity is concentrated. These facts are essential to understanding the … increase in service employment, and professional and business services outsourcing alone contributes almost half of that amount. …

not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

lead employers to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning … dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, wages and … observe a positive relationship between international outsourcing of services and innovative activity, measured in terms of … services sectors. Furthermore, this positive effect of international services outsourcing on innovation does not appear to be …

The literature of service outsourcing is mainly focused on case studies or specific service activities. However, there … is no evidence about the pattern of relatedness among outsourcing of services. This paper analyses this issue by a … analyse the degree of relatedness for outsourcing decisions among an array of fourteen services in a large data set of Spanish …