Despite the attention that offshore outsourcing currently demands in the public media, there
is little empirical evidence on its economic impact. As a consequence of rising fears of job …

Recent empirical studies which utilize plant‐or establishment‐level data to examine
globalization's impact on productivity have discovered many causal mechanisms involved in …

This paper documents how productivity varies with globalization modes, based on a firm-
level data set covering all manufacturing industries in Japan without any firm-size threshold …

We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant‐level data
for Irish manufacturing. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from …

This article explores the impact of offshoring on productivity using firm‐level data for the
Japanese manufacturing industries during the period 1994–2000. We find that intrafirm …

This paper analyzes the location (at home or abroad) and the mode of organization
(outsourcing versus integration) of intermediate inputs production, using data on a sample of …

Focusing on Japan over the period 1988–2013, this paper provides the first test of the extent
to which pollution offshoring has occurred for this major industrial economy. In so doing, we …

In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of firms shifting stages of
their production processes overseas. In this paper we investigate whether firms outsource …

The firms that compose a typical American industry regularly part ways over trade policy,
choosing to lobby or publicly comment on their own rather than collectively via their industry …

This paper reviews some of the possible changes that may occur in the national labour
markets of many OECD countries as a result of international trade and the …