world's most services-intensive economies. This paper highlights recent business case studies in Australia, which …

Offshoring continues to be an important dimension of firms' internationalization choices. However, offshoring also … develop a heterogeneous firm framework with immigrants and offshoring costs, including technology leakage. In the model … about the characteristics of employees, manufacturing firms and their bilateral offshoring. Our results support the …

program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts … engage in offshoring, and that this leads to gains in output and (measured) productivity, and potential gains in employment … and wages, in the remaining domestic activities of the offshoring firm. Consistent with these models, we find that …

We develop a theoretical framework to explain firms' offshoring decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This model … sharp prediction of the prevalence of offshoring in a given industry: The propensity of firms to source intermediate inputs … particularly pronounced in industries with higher volatility. Combining industry-level data on the U.S. offshoring intensity with …

selling abroad. Because offshoring requires larger sunk costs than domestic sourcing, some firms decide to offshore only when … between the domestic and the foreign market are greater. In turn, offshoring firms sell greater volumes, display less …