Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous in terms of offshoring costs, or they may …

, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …

), the 'quality' of such integration in terms of technological capabilities and the structure of employment in European … countries and sectors. We study employment shares in fabrication and headquarter occupations in terms of functional … specialisation and employment upgrading, making two specific contributions. First, we explicitly account for pre-existing asymmetries …

of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain … with this variety of employment outcomes, the empirical evidence suggests that offshoring activities are mainly driven by a … of domestic jobs that are affected. In hightech industries the negative effects of offshoring on employment are …

. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation, offshoring, and tougher bargaining with labor unions. We show that …

"offshoring", and provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of intermediate imported inputs on employment and wages in … results of the econometric analysis. Results suggest that offshoring has a general negative impact on employment and wages … offshoring on domestic labor demand and wages. The second section of the paper presents offshoring trends and discusses the …

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …

India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …