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 … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …

This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special … offshoring involves job destruction, especially when the destination is a low-wage country. In such circumstances, staying … employees' job satisfaction is reduced. However, the relationship between outsourcing and employee well-being is not entirely …

of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account : offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring … depends on 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 …

Japanese firms outsourcing to offshore suppliers owned by other Japanese firms. These findings suggest that offshoring has …Previous studies have established that offshoring firms employ more non-production workers. By using micro-data on … in offshoring firms but that of unskilled non-production workers is not. The share of non-production workers for the …

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 … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …

) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …

between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …

This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage … setting. Reductions in the amount of resources required in the offshoring process usually decrease employment, though the … opposite can happen at a low initial level of offshoring activity. If additional offshoring leads to a fall in the scale of …

and substantial increase in the outsourcing and offshoring of ICT development, maintenance and support contracts. Each and … and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, BT is taking a strategic approach to outsourcing: this has resulted in a rapid … every outsourcing decision could have major security, legal, regulatory and contractual impacts. It is generally recognised …