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 …

About 40% of employment in manufacturing is in services functions. This paper develops a measure of narrow outsourcing … face from outside IT suppliers. Narrow outsourcing is entered into labour demand functions where labour is broken down on … percentage point increase in narrow local outsourcing of services reduces manufacturing employment in the same services function …

-level Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators of offshoring and domestic outsourcing. The results suggest that employment in all … observed between the offshoring of inputs and domestic outsourcing with more routine-intensive jobs. Taken together, the …

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 …

country of origin and distinguish between firm-level outsourcing of final versus intermediate goods. Results indicate that … China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …