In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …

offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … firms which have offshored production activities in a previous period to a control group of non-offshoring firms. The … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home …

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …

We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …-abundant West to a skill-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress …. offshoring induces technical change with an ambiguous factor bias. When the initial level of offshoring is low, an increase in …

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 …