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 …

-skilled workers, this conclusion is qualified because the empirical evidence is also compatible with product upgrading and outsourcing …

major subsegments of the electrical industry is analysed in more detail for the case of West Germany. …

of international offshoring from the recent patterns of 'domestic offshoring', the relocation of activities across … national border. Investigating the domestic and international offshoring patterns for West German manufacturing industries …

This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot … manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how …

not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services ofsshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …