This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to … compensated partly by new job creation, particularly for high skilled workers. -- Outsourcing ; outward FDI ; motives ; location …

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

It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that …

The paper analyses a partial equilibrium outsourcing model with Cournot competition in intermediate good production …. Final production is located in western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a western (outsourcing …) or eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). Interregional production (factor) allocation depending on factor …