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 …

Offshoring is an important aspect of firms' internationalization. However, offshoring comes at a cost, especially where … information or trust is lacking. Immigrant employees could reduce such offshoring costs through their knowledge of their former …-2007. Our results support the hypothesis that immigrant employees spur offshoring activities by firms through lower offshoring …

International fragmentation, or outsourcing, is often referred to as a distinctly novel feature in today's global … outsourcing targets for western European firms. Against this background this paper provides a policy-oriented discussion of cross … European point of view. Specifically, the paper idetifies conditions under which outsourcing is beneficial for a western …

fragmentation may cause a domestic welfare loss, because outsourcing takes place in discrete steps where it affords firms quasi … process of fragmentation caused by less costly outsourcing is beneficial for the domestic economy. …

outsourcing, or international fragmentation. Economists have investigated this phenomenon with a focus on welfare and factor price … welfare efect of outsourcing. Moreover, the paper highlights a crucial distinction between outsourcing that takes place in an … firms must rely on arms-length trasactions. The results are as follows. a) With foreign direct investment, outsourcing which …

. The paper identifies conditions under which outsourcing to a low-wage country is a friend or an enemy to domestic labour …