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 …

This paper investigates outsourcing and foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions in North–South trade under … wages. If the expected outsourcing cost is lower than the in-house production cost, some outsourcing to a Southern firm is … optimal. However, outsourcing to an FDI firm is superior to outsourcing to a Southern firm as well as in-house production …

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 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 …