The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in … advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a … business services offshoring to high-wage and low-wage countries. Estimations of static and dynamic industry-level labour …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether offshoring does indeed help to improve … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high …

international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a … recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996) estimate the effect of international outsourcing on wage inequality in the US. This … paper extends the FH approach by using more detailed definitions of outsourcing and skill. The analysis applies to UK …

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour … demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is importantly a result consistent with existing … empirical research. Furthermore, we show that a production mode with a higher proportion of outsourcing activity reduces the …