Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and …-level studies. We find that outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Applying two alternative skill classifications we find … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. This approach …

layer is very positively (negatively) correlated with value added. We then explore the changes in the wages and number of … expand substantially add layers and pay lower average wages in all pre-existing layers. In contrast, firms that expand little … and do not reorganize pay higher average wages in all pre-existing layers. …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …

. Such outsourcing leads to increased wages for the remaining in-house production. We find that stronger unions, which imply … higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for international outsourcing. Though somewhat surprising, this result provides a … theoretical conciliation of the empirically observed trends of deunionization and increased international outsourcing in many …

increasingly competitive environment. We also find, however, that multinational firms in Austria and Germany are outsourcing the … the firms’ outsourcing activities to Eastern Europe are a response to a human capital scarcity in Austria and Germany that … became particularly severe in the 1990s. Corporations’ outsourcing of skill-intensive firm activity to Eastern Europe has …

hand and wages of workers employed by this firm on the other hand. The latter establishes an exporter wage premium, since … in terms of both operating profits and average wages. We also find evidence for gains from trade for all five countries …

market, they produce higher-quality goods to appeal to richer Northern consumers, and they pay high wages to attract and … exports, upgrade quality, and raise wages relative to initially less-productive, lower-wage plants within each industry. Using … more-productive plants increased the export share of sales, white-collar wages, blue-collar wages, the relative wage of …

changes associated with exports reduce the relative demand for skills. Second, within the class of non-manual workers, wage …