. -- globalization ; outsourcing ; offshoring ; working conditions ; job satisfaction ; subjective well-being …This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of …

indebtedness. At the same time we evaluate the impact of convergence on the EU-15 countries also, by endogenising offshoring and … manufacturing to the NMS are not well founded. In contrast, offshoring appears to be a win-win case for both the EU-15 and the NMS …

of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs. offshore outsourcing vs. in-house expansion of R&D abroad). Moreover … domestic R&D employment. -- globalization ; internationalization ; outsourcing offshoring ; job loss ; R&D ; spillovers …This study empirically explores whether R&D offshoring affects the domestic R&D employment at the firm level. Overall …

of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … offshoring channel. Offshore outsourcing of R&D has a positive effect on the anticipated domestic employment, whereas in …-house offshoring of R&D has a negative effect. Specific for the manufacturing sector is that offshore outsourcing of production also …

their HQs so as to spread their different HQs functions over several locations around the world. The literature on the … that the competition between (potential) locations for HQ functions will rise. -- Internationalisation ; corporate …

effects. On the other hand, when looking at the effects of offshore outsourcing, the results are ambiguous …. -- internationalisation ; FDI ; outsourcing offshore ; employment ; labour market …

This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its …-Internet business-to-business applications (e.g., EDI) is the leading activity in this respect. The various dimensions of IT outsourcing … findings nevertheless suggest that IT outsourcing may have significant economic consequences. -- Labor productivity …