World Scientific Studies in International Economics - Volume 71
Offshoring
离岸外包
 

Causes and Consequences at the Firm and Worker Level
Edited by Holger Görg (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany), Aoife Hanley (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany)
 
408pp                                
978-981-3239-42-5                US$138             £120
 
Release Date (Asia): Sep 2018
Release Date (Rest of the World): Nov 2018
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10969

This volume brings together research papers dealing with the causes and consequences of offshoring. The first part considers causes and motives of offshoring. Using firm level data for countries such as Ireland, France, and the UK, this book looks at issues such as the increasing availability of business services or the internet, and improvements in intellectual property rights protection as stimulants of offshoring. The second part then looks at the implications of offshoring for the firms involved. Based on firm level data for Ireland, Sweden, the UK and a number of Emerging Market Economies, the book also focuses on productivity effects of offshoring as well as the implications for innovation activities of firms, and for profitability. The implications for workers of offshoring are dealt with in the third part of the volume. Studies are based on individual level data for Germany, Denmark and the UK and look at implications for individual level wages, in particular considering the importance of skills and occupations.
 
Key Features:

• Brings together in one place related research on causes of offshoring, consequences for firm performance — in particular productivity and innovation — and for workers
• Looks at a large number of aspects of offshoring, causes, implications for productivity and innovation, and labour market effects

• Most papers are based on firm or individual level data for a variety of countries

 
Contents: Causes and Motives for Offshoring: Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing (Peter Debaere, Holger Görg and Horst Raff); Availability of Business Services and Outward Investment: Evidence from French Firms (Holger Görg and Liza Jabbour); Outsourcing Foreign Services and the Internet: Evidence from Firm Level Data (Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley and Ingrid Ott); A Tale of Two Literatures: Transaction Costs and Property Rights in Innovation Outsourcing (Nishaal Gooroochurn and Aoife Hanley); Implications at the Firm Level: Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership and Productivity: Evidence from UK Establishment-Level Data (Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg); Productivity Effects of International Outsourcing: Evidence from Plant-Level Data (Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley and Eric Strobl); Offshoring and Productivity: The Case of Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Chiara Criscuolo, Eva Hagsten, Aoife Hanley, Patrik Karpaty and Stefan Svanberg); Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation (Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley); Outsourcing, Importing and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-Level Data for Emerging Economies (Ursula Fritsch and Holger Görg); Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability? (Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley); Labour Demand Effects of International Outsourcing: Evidence from Plant-Level Data (Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley); Labour Market Consequences at the Worker Level: International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom (Alexander Hijzen, Holger Görg and Robert C Hine); Winners and Losers: A Micro-Level Analysis of International Outsourcing and Wages (Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg); Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries (Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg and Jakob Roland Munch); Services Offshoring and Wages: Evidence from Micro Data (Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg); Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers (Holger Görg and Dennis Görlich); Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern (Daniel Baumgarten, Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg);
 
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the fields of globalization, international economics, international trade and business.