integration to changes in other relevant plant characteristics. We show that increases in outsourcing of services are positively …

growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced jobs fall … to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning, security and … logistics services in administrative data using the universe of social security records in Germany. We document a dramatic …

This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …

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. -- Outsourcing ; organizational …