This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special … employees' job satisfaction is reduced. However, the relationship between outsourcing and employee well-being is not entirely …

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect …" effect via the suppliers' costs favors vertical integration of both inputs. If production is highly component intensive, and … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …

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 …

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …

measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the … correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as agreement on the absence of adverse employment effects across all … between outsourcing and plant closings is predominantly negative, albeit poorly determined. …

economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing …, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … using a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time, as well as between services. Our …