Topics Labour and Migration Outsourcing and skills an empirical investigation (by M. Landesmann and R. Stehrer; pp. 15 …-20) Keywords outsourcing, labour, skills, specialization Countries covered European Union, New EU Member States, Asia, USA Topics …

discussion of the impact of global economic integration upon labour markets the impact of outsourcing upon wage structures and … upon productivity, the effects of NAFTA upon the US, Mexican and Canadian economies, the issue of outsourcing in services …

outsourcing in the Austrian economy over the periods 1995-2000 and 2000-2005. Based on an input-output framework, we apply a … coefficients and final demand components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates …

particular we look at the role of outsourcing in the process of trade integration of these countries. Further we discuss the … particularly for processed inputs and parts production are interpreted in a catching-up framework combined with outsourcing High … hypothesis that geographic proximity is important for outsourcing activities. …

In this paper we study the effects of high-tech capital, foreign direct investment flows and outsourcing on demand for … outsourcing we further distinguish the effects of trade and outsourcing on relative wages by different groups of partner countries …. This allows to study the effects of 'inward' outsourcing and foreign direct investment flows to Central and Eastern …

outsourcing is more attractive when the privte market is competitive, the outsourcing decision will be the same in a competitive …" politician outsources to a lower price. When this is the case and outsourcing is a salient issue in an election, the median voter … prefers a more "leftist" government to be in charge of the outsourcing. …