This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on … 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 …

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 …

potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically … produced inputs in the same proportion as imported inputs, (ii) multinationals have the same input sourcing behaviour as … domestic firms, irrespective of their country of origin, and (iii) the demand for locally produced inputs by multinationals is …

questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of … multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does the presence of multinationals affect the survival of other firms in the … that only domestic market oriented multinationals responded to this negative shock by being more "footloose"; this is not …

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the indirect … outsourcing of the less important supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased … capacity, the increased strategic importance of natural resources and the increased interregional trade flow. I also …

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 …

relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing … empirical work covering the labor market effects of trade and FDI. Finally, we identify and summarize the existing research gaps …