This paper presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of low …-skilled workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real … structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 3.3% in the real …

This paper shows that market concentration is positively related to outsourcing activities in a framework of Cournot … competition with strategic outsourcing in a first stage. The theoretical priors are confirmed by rank correlation coefficients …