In this paper, we investigate the effects of offshoring on workers' job security using matched employer-employee data … from Sweden. For our observed period (1997-2011), while the share of firms engaged in offshoring fell during the period … from around 25% to 22%, offshoring per worker within offshoring firms almost doubled. We make use of this variation to …

-based explanation by focussing on international outsourcing. In a recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996) estimate the effect of … international outsourcing on wage inequality in the US. This paper extends the FH approach using more detailed definitions of import … penetration and outsourcing as well as data for UK manufacturing industries for the period 1982-1996. The econometric results …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of “outsourcing” using establishment level data for UK manufacturing … industries. We analyse an establishment’s decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment …’s productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …