and investigates the impacts of international outsourcing on the Japanese and the Korean labour markets. The main findings … outsourcing and the international fragmentation of production. Third, reflecting the fact that outsourcing to Asia (particularly … manufacturing as a result of outsourcing. For Korea, although the overall effects of outsourcing have been insignificant in Korea …

them. It depicts recent developments in offshoring, trade in tasks and the integration of large emerging economies into the … labour demand in the importcompeting sectors or activities. Offshoring of services has a relatively strong positive marginal … impact on labour productivity, but the scale of offshoring is still modest. The labour market impact of offshoring is …